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Author : Greg Urban
Release : 2001
Genre : Civilization, Modern
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Book Rating : 433/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Metaculture by : Greg Urban
Download or read book Metaculture written by Greg Urban. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Mulhern
Release : 2002-01-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culture/Metaculture by : Francis Mulhern
Download or read book Culture/Metaculture written by Francis Mulhern. This book was released on 2002-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines: * culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis * changing views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot and Richard Hoggart * post-war theories of 'popular' culture and the rise of Cultural Studies, paying particular attention to the key figures of Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall * theories of 'metaculture', or the ways in which culture, however defined, speaks of itself. Francis Mulhern's interdisciplinary approach allows him to draw out the fascinating links between key political issues and the changing definitions of culture. The result is an unrivalled introduction to a concept at the heart of contemporary critical thought.
Author : Greg Urban
Release : 2001
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 420/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Metaculture by : Greg Urban
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Author : James M. Wilce
Release : 2009-02-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crying Shame by : James M. Wilce
Download or read book Crying Shame written by James M. Wilce. This book was released on 2009-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context Draws on the author’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization
Author : Francis Mulhern
Release : 2024-06-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What Is Cultural Criticism? by : Francis Mulhern
Download or read book What Is Cultural Criticism? written by Francis Mulhern. This book was released on 2024-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern's account of what he terms 'metacultural discourse'. This embraces two opposing critical traditions, the elite pessimism of Kulturkritik and the populist enthusiasms of Cultural Studies. Each in its own way dissolves politics into culture, Mulhern argues. Collini, on the other hand, protests that cultural criticism provides resources for genuine critical engagement with contemporary society. Tension between culture and politics there may be, but it works productively in both directions. This widely noticed encounter is that rare thing, a sustained debate in which, as Collini remarks, the protagonists not only exchange shots but also ideas. It concludes with Mulhern's engagement with Collini's writing on the subordination of universities to metrics and bureaucracy, and a companion rejoinder from Collini on Mulhern's study of the 'condition of culture novel' and his essays on questions of nationality and the politics of intellectuals.
