Re: RARA-AVIS: Ads in books (product placement)
Jeff Evans (Jeff_Evans@umit.maine.edu)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:42:54 -0500
I've just rejoined the list so have missed some of the
discussion, but
Dennis Porter
mentions such specific and commercial references, both in
terms of
reading
pleasure (from identiifying the the product itself along with
any
response to the
technical skill of description) and toward his theory that
such
references cumulatively
help serve the purpose of deferring the solution and plot
resolution,
thus creating suspense.
He's convincing discussing this "relish for the inessential,"
using
Ian Fleming as his example.
Jeff Evans
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