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A proof of Merca's conjectures on sums of odd divisor functions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000497271200033
Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory booksâ visualities
This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of âinventory booksâ, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a proliferation of imagery and nonlinear text layout and argumentation. Inventory books all use text and imagery in unique ways, appearing to include visual cultural references with connotative value that would have appealed to readersâ understandings of self and society. Drawing from scholarship from medieval, visual and literary studies, this article argues that inventory booksâ visualities represented and affirmed the countercultural movements of 1960s/70s America. They did so by accentuating each individual readerâs power for meaning-making and by (figuratively and literally) turning conventional reader expectations upside-down. Not only do inventory books reflect their contexts of production, but they also serve to establish and perpetuate contemporary readersâ senses of connection with countercultural identities