Literature, Culture, and Society

by Milner, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780814755648
• ISBN10: 081475564X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

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

Literature, Culture and the Canon

Literary Studies: Classics, Comparative Literature, English Literature

Literature as Value: The Canon, Criticism, Minority Culture

From Literary to Cultural Studies: The Sociological Turn

Elitism, Populism and Immodest Cultural Studies

The Intelligentsia as a Social Class

Analytical Strategies

Hermeneutics

Cultural Materialism and New Historicism

The Sociology of Culture

Theories of Ideology

Semiology and Semiotics

Psychoanalysis and Post-Structuralism

The Cultural Politics of Difference

Postmodernism

Mechanical Reproduction - The Forces of Production

The Literary Mode of Production

Mechanical Reproduction

The Print Media

The Audio-Visual Media

Cultural Form

The Sociology of the Novel

The Moretti Thesis: Core, Periphery and Literary Form

Commodity Culture - The Relations of Production

Print-Capitalism

Writers and Writing

Readers and Reading

The State, Ideology and the Market

Texts and Contexts - From Genesis to Frankenstein

Genesis

Paradise Lost

Frankenstein

Frankenstein in the Cinema

Texts and Contexts - From Rossum's Universal Robots to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Rossum's Universal Robots

Metropolis

Blade Runner

The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Postmodern Prometheus and the Biomechanical Demonoid

Postmodern Gothic

Conclusion: Loose Canons and Fallen Angels

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