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Cultural Criticism

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780803957343
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Criticism written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Asa Berger's unique ability to translate difficult theories into accessible language makes this book an ideal introduction to cultural criticism. Berger covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories to semiotics and Marxism. Cultural Criticism breathes new life into the discipline by making these theories relevant to students' lives. The author illustrates his explanations with excerpts from classic works giving readers a sense of the important thinkers' styles and helping place them in their context. Berger also provides a comprehensive bibliography on cultural criticism for those who wish to explore the topics at greater length. Cultural Criticism is the perfect undergraduate supplemental text for such courses as media studies, literary criticism, and popular culture.

The Future of Trauma Theory

Author : Gert Buelens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135053103
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Trauma Theory written by Gert Buelens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might still be productive. It goes on, via a critique of existing positions, to relocate trauma theory in a postcolonial and globalized world, theoretically, aesthetically and materially, and focuses on non-Western accounts and understandings of trauma, memory and suffering. Part two, Politics and Subjectivity, turns explicitly to politics and subjectivity, focussing on the state and the various forms of subjection to which it gives rise, and on human rights, biopolitics and community. Each chapter, in different ways, advocates a movement beyond the sort of texts and concepts that are the usual focus for trauma criticism and moves this dynamic network of ideas forward. With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, this volume will be a key critical intervention in one of the most important areas in contemporary literary criticism and theory.

Contemporaries in Cultural Criticism

Author : Hartmut Heuermann
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporaries in Cultural Criticism written by Hartmut Heuermann and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1991 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to "Classics in Cultural Criticism I" and "II," this volume extends the synoptic view into the present and thus systematically supplements the first two volumes. The overall conception is analogous to that of the predecessors and, consistent with the general design, the book is again the fruit of a joint labor of English/American and german scholarship. The contemporary critics dealt with encompass Raymond Williams ("Tony Pinkney"), Leslie Fiedler ("Walter Kuhnel"), E.P. Thompson ("Richard Stinshoff"), Fredric Jameson ("Ingrid Kerkhoff"), Daniel Bell ("Heinz Tschachler"), Susan Sontag ("Gary Grieve-Carlson"), James Baldwin ("Klaus Ensslen"), Theodore Roszak ("Thomas R. West"), Edward Said ("Gunter H. Lenz"), Christopher Lasch /"Rosita Becke"), Stuart Hall ("Ingrid von Rosenberg"), Kate Millett ("Blanche Linden-Ward"), C.L.R. James ("Jens David"), Adrienne Rich ("Elizabeth Meese"), Neil Postmann ("Peter Ludes"). The book is prefaced by the editors and again features bibliographies of the works of all critics under discussion."

The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism

Author : Joseph Childers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072434
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism written by Joseph Childers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.

Contemporary Arab Thought

Author : Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144881
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Thought written by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial issues of Latin America and Africa, revealing the shared struggles of different regions and various Arab concerns.

Against Everything

Author : Mark Greif
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101871156
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Against Everything written by Mark Greif and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition and food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of Radiohead, the rise and fall of the hipster, the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life what might be the right philosophical stance to adopt toward one's self and the world." -- Amazon.com.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Author : Robert Con Davis
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780801311130
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Criticism written by Robert Con Davis and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen new articles provide the best of contemporary literary and cultural criticism, keeping this book current and in line with influential trends. Included are the latest works in gender studies, feminist theory, post-colonial studies, cultural studies and new historicism.

Criticism in the Borderlands

Author : Héctor Calderón
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311430
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Criticism in the Borderlands written by Héctor Calderón and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the “canon”; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo

The Shock Doctrine

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429919485
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism

Author : Lin Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000040003
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism written by Lin Xiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public culture. With a focus on essays that appeared in Dissent magazine—one of the most important journals of the New York intellectuals—from the year of its launch in 1954 to its most recent issue, as well as representative books on American culture by Daniel Bell and Russell Jacoby, the author contends that post-Sixties narratives constitute a special paradigm of cultural criticism that seek radical possibilities for societal change in the US, based on a use of the 1960s as an index for understanding American cultural and political life. A study of the ways in which narratives can move beyond story-telling to have interpretative and ideological functions as a form of criticism, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural studies and sociology, as well as those working in the fields of linguistics and literary theory.

The Future of Trauma Theory

Author : Gert Buelens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415694582
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Trauma Theory written by Gert Buelens and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection analyses the future of 'trauma theory', a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might still be productive. It goes on, via a critique of existing positions, to relocate trauma theory in a postcolonial and globalized world, theoretically, aesthetically and materially, and focuses on non-Western accounts and understandings of trauma, memory and suffering. Part two, Politics and Subjectivity, turns explicitly to politics and subjectivity, focussing on the state and the various forms of subjection to which it gives rise, and on human rights, biopolitics and community. Each chapter, in different ways, advocates a movement beyond the sort of texts and concepts that are the usual focus for trauma criticism and moves this dynamic network of ideas forward. With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, this volume will be a key critical intervention in one of the most important areas in contemporary literary criticism and theory.

Cultural Theory

Author : Tim Edwards
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848607520
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Theory written by Tim Edwards and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by some of the leading thinkers in the field, the book is an excellent resource for longstanding and contemporary issues in cultural theory. Comprehensive and well-written." - David Oswell, Goldsmiths College This timely volume provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory and cultural analysis. It reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. Readers receive a dazzling, critical survey of some of the primary figures in the field. However, the book is much more than a Rough Guide tour through the ′great figures′ in the field. Through an analysis of specific problems, such as transculturalism, transnationalsim, feminism, popular music and cultural citizenship, it demonstrates the relevance of cultural sociology in elucidating some of the key questions of our time.

Contemporary Cultural Theory

Author : Andrew Milner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134419201
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Cultural Theory written by Andrew Milner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This lucid and concise overview brings a much needed sense and history and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. The authors identify six major paradigms in cultural theory: utilitarianism, cultural materialism, critical theory and postmodernism. They outline social and discursive contexts within each of these has developed and provide the essential grounding to understand current debates in the field. This third edition has been extensively revised to include new material on the new historicism, queer theory, black and Latino cultural studies, cultural policy and posthumanism, and on the work of thinkers such as Zizek, Bourdieu, Deleuze and Guattari.

Secularization and Cultural Criticism

Author : Vincent P. Pecora
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226653129
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Secularization and Cultural Criticism written by Vincent P. Pecora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Secularization and Cultural Criticism' examines the responses of a wide range of thinkers to illustrate exactly why the problem of secularisation in the study of society and culture should matter once again.

William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture

Author : Mitch R. Murray
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387481
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture written by Mitch R. Murray and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It is high time for a book that explores the significance and wide-ranging impact of Gibson’s fiction. In the 1970s and 80s, Gibson, the “Godfather of Cyberpunk,” rejuvenated science fiction. In groundbreaking works such as Neuromancer, which changed science fiction as we knew it, Gibson provided us with a language and imaginary through which it became possible to make sense of the newly emerging world of globalization and the digital and media age. Ever since, Gibson’s reformulation of science fiction has provided us not just with radically innovative visions of the future but indeed with trenchant analyses of our historical present and of the emergence and exhaustion of possible futures. Contributors: Maria Alberto, Andrew M. Butler, Amy J. Elias, Christian Haines, Kylie Korsnack, Mathias Nilges, Malka Older, Aron Pease, Lisa Swanstrom, Takayuki Tatsumi, Sherryl Vint, Phillip E. Wegner, Roger Whitson, Charles Yu

The Digital Critic

Author : Robert Barry
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682190773
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Critic written by Robert Barry and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we think of when we think of literary critics? Enlightenment snobs in powdered wigs? Professional experts? Cloistered academics? Through the end of the 20th century, book review columns and literary magazines held onto an evolving but stable critical paradigm, premised on expertise, objectivity, and carefully measured response. And then the Internet happened. From the editors of Review 31 and 3:AM Magazine, The Digital Critic brings together a diverse group of perspectives—early-adopters, Internet skeptics, bloggers, novelists, editors, and others—to address the future of literature and scholarship in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews. It takes stock of the so-called Literary Internet up to the present moment, and considers the future of criticism: its promise, its threats of decline, and its mutation, perhaps, into something else entirely. With contributions from Robert Barry, Russell Bennetts, Michael Bhaskar, Louis Bury, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, Marc Farrant, Orit Gat, Thea Hawlin, Ellen Jones, Anna Kiernan, Luke Neima, Will Self, Jonathon Sturgeon, Sara Veale, Laura Waddell, and Joanna Walsh.

Homegrown

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351757431
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Homegrown written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication. This new edition includes a new afterword, in which Mesa-Bains reflects on the changes, conflicts, and criticisms of the last decade.