216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Collapsing the Literary Studies Paradigm; Part 1 Constructing the Literary Object; Part 2 Dissolving the Literary Object; Part 3 The Question of Literary Value; Part 4 High Culture/popular Culture; Part 5 The Canon and Its Other: Eroding the Separation; Part 6 High Culture/popular Culture: Heart of Darkness and Tarzan of the Apes; Part 7 Towards a New Paradigm; Part 8 History and Signifying Practice; Part 9 Terms for a New Paradigm; Part 10 Analysing Culture; Part 11 The Subject of Literary Studies and the Subject of Cultural Studies; Part 12 The Politics of Cultural Studies;
Biography
Easthope, Antony
`High degree of sophistication, but explained with clarity and (rare quality) wit! a valuable source of reference beyond the field of cultural studies, too.' - Dr S J Simkin LSU College
