1st Edition
Crusoe's Footprints Cultural Studies in Britain and America
By Patrick Brantlinger
Copyright 1990
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges... Read more
Chapter 1 The Humanities (and a Lot More) in Crisis; Chapter 2 Cultural Studies in Britain; Chapter 3 From Althusser to Gramsci: The Question of Ideology; Chapter 4 Class, Gender, Race; Chapter 5 Mass Culture, Postmodernism, and Theories of Communication; Works Cited; Index;
Biography
Patrick Brantlinger teaches at Indiana University.
