Literature, Culture and Society

by Milner,Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415307857
• ISBN10: 0415307856
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Literature, Culture and Society makes a determined attempt to re-establish the connections between literary studies, cultural studies and sociology. Andrew Milner provides a critical overview of the various theoretical approaches to textual analysis, from hermeneutics to post-modernism, and presents a substantive account of the processes by which literary, film and television texts are produced and consumed." "This new second edition has been fully revised and updated. There are entirely new sections on major theorists and critical approaches including Bourdieu, Zizek and psychoanalysis, Moretti and world systems theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Andrew Milner is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Literature, culture and the canon	1	(42)
Literary studies: classics, comparative literature, English literature	3	(2)
Literature as value: the canon, criticism, minority culture	5	(9)
From literary to cultural studies: the sociological turn	14	(8)
Elitism, populism and immodest cultural studies	22	(12)
The intelligentsia as a social class	34	(9)
Analytical strategies	43	(46)
Hermeneutics	44	(4)
Cultural materialism and new historicism	48	(6)
The sociology of culture	54	(7)
Theories of ideology	61	(7)
Semiology and semiotics	68	(5)
Psychoanalysis and post-structuralism	73	(3)
The cultural politics of difference	76	(4)
Postmodernism	80	(9)
Mechanical reproduction: the forces of production	89	(52)
The literary mode of production	90	(4)
Mechanical reproduction	94	(1)
The print media	95	(12)
The audio-visual media	107	(9)
Cultural form	116	(6)
The sociology of the novel	122	(11)
The Moretti thesis: core, periphery and literary form	133	(8)
Commodity culture: the relations of production	141	(54)
Print-capitalism	142	(13)
Writers and writing	155	(19)
Readers and reading	174	(14)
The state, ideology and the market	188	(7)
Texts and contexts: from Genesis to Frankenstein	195	(44)
Genesis	196	(7)
Paradise Lost	203	(14)
Frankenstein	217	(14)
Frankenstein in the cinema	231	(8)
Texts and contexts: from Rossum's Universal Robots to Buffy the Vampire Slayer	239	(56)
Rossum's Universal Robots	242	(10)
Metropolis	252	(8)
Blade Runner	260	(8)
The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer	268	(9)
`The Postmodern Prometheus' and the biomechanical demonoid	277	(7)
Postmodern Gothic	284	(7)
Conclusion: loose canons and fallen angels	291	(4)
Bibliography and filmography	295	(26)
Index	321