1st Edition
Consuming Utopia Cultural Studies and the Politics of Reading
By John Storey
Copyright 2022
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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Consuming Utopia builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books by the author to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural studies.
With a critical focus on social practices of reading rather than on the text itself, John Storey advances a timely and relevant... Read more
Preface; 1. Culture and power; 2. The utopian contrast; 3. Dystopian and anti-utopian fiction; 4. Textual politics; 5. Habitualization, defamiliarization, and utopian reading; 6. Reading and the education of discontent; Postscript; References
Biography
John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK, and Chair Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholar Programme, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
