Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest

Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest

How an Anglo-American methodology took root in France.

French organic chemistry had a strong nationalistic bent in the immediate aftermath to World War II. It continued to bask in the glow of the pre-World War I Nobel prize awarded jointly in 1912 to Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier. In addition, the influence of the two mandarins then in power, Charles Prévost at the Sorbonne and Albert Kirrmann, a Dean in Strasbourg who would be called upon as v...

the american dream in three plays by eugene oneill, tennessee williams, and lorraine hansberry

این مطالعه به نقد و بررسی مفهوم اسطوره ی رویای امریکایی در سه نمایشنامه ی قرن بیستم امریکایی می پردازد، که این نمایشنامه ها عبارتند از: the iceman cometh (مرد یخین می آید) نوشته ی یوجین اونیل، 1940؛ desirea streetcar named (اتوبوسی به نام هوس) نوشته ی تنسی ویلیامز، 1947؛ و in the sun raisin a (انگور خشکیده در آفتاب) ، نوشته ی لورین هنزبری، 1958. هدف از این بررسی، ابتدا شناخت مفهوم رویای امری...

The Catcher in the Rye: Holden vs. Consumer Culture

The transformation of industrial city into modern city entailed the change in the dominant nature of the city from the site of production to that of consumption. In the postmodern city, the trend accelerated, or better to say, heightened into "mass consumption". Consumption is no longer considered a routine and banal activity. It is rather a consciously and unconsciously affected affair that is...

The Language and Culture of a Dream: A Case Study

This study has analyzed the culture and language of the American Dream in Blue Surge. It shows the effects of the formula of success and the competition presented by this dream; and, how it produces neurotic individuals trying to cope with the competitive society by means of neurotic strategies. This study has used Karen Horney’s theories and strategies. Horney says neurosis is engende...