This lucid and concise overview brings a much needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. the authors identify six major paradigms in cultural theory: Utilitarianism; culturalism and cultural materalism; critical theory and the sociology of culture; structurlaist and post structurlaist semiology; difference theory and postmodernism.
About Author :
Andrew Milner is professor and director of the Centre for comparative literature and cultural studies at Monash University, Australia.
Jeff Browitt teach in Spanish comparative literature and cultural studies at Monash University.
Contents :
Acknowledgements
Cultural studies and cultural theory
Literature and society: from culturalism to cultural materialism
Critical theory
Semiology: from structuralism to post structuralism
The cultural politics of difference
Postmodernism and cultural theory
Cultural criticism and cultural policy