Literary into Cultural Studies
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A01=Antony Easthope
analysing high versus popular culture
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Author_Antony Easthope
canon formation
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Category=JBCC
Conventional Literary Study
cultural materialism
culture
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Dominant Ideology Thesis
Dominant Specularity
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eq_non-fiction
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Evelyn Mulwray
fish
Follow
Football Game
Gash Gold Vermilion
Granada Cinema
High Cultural Discourse
Imaginary Unity
Industrial Film
Lighthouse
Literary Studies Paradigm
Literary Study
literary value debate
Lord Greystoke
modernist
new historicism
Nihil Obstat
Noah Cross
popular
Popular Cultural Discourse
poststructuralism
reading
Roger Moore
Silk Cut
specularity
stanley
structuralism
Superimposed
Syntagmatic Chain
Television Police Series
text
texts
Wo
Product details
- ISBN 9780415066402
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship. With `the death of literature', the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies. Anthony Easthope argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a detailed criticism of competing theories (British cultural studies, New Historicism, cultural materialism) he shows how this new study should - and should not be done. Easthope's exploration of the problems, possibilities and politics of this new discipline includes an original reassessment of the question of literary value. By contrasting Conrad's Heart of Darkness with Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes, Easthope demonstrates how textuality sustains the opposition between high and popular culture darkness.
