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One of the most compelling of all cultural and economic institutions, advertising is a genuine entertainer whose dramatic performance allows for the intrinsic and interdependent relationship between representational, interactive and compositional meanings. Traditional portrayals of the female body in advertising have been heavily relying on non-verbal modes generating a multiplicity of problematic messages co(n)textualized by extra-linguistic features that interact within the cognitive environment of the target au...

Years and writing signatures apart, it would seem that Charles Dickens’s Hard Times has very little to do, if anything, with Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and/ or with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go for that matter. And yet, all of these three novels operate, in various degrees, with what seems to have always been a common life principle for many, regardless of the temporal or geographic co(n)text at hand. Dicken’s Hard Times portrays characters who prioritize facts, figures, and material gain ove...