Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415038362 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 216 str.

Ioan Davies

Opis

This lively book will be essential to all those attempting to understand the state of Cultural Studies in the West today. Ion Davies, who was in at the birth of Cultural Studies in Britain and followed its development in many parts of the world, is uniquely qualified to add historical depth and comparative breadth to this subject. Introducing the central theoretical issues, as well as the key personalities, Cultural Studies and Beyond traces the origins, growth and diffusion of the subject.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The First Narrative; Chapter 3 The Modes of Difference; Chapter 4 Narrative Two: the Political, Educational and Media Sites of Cultural Theory; Chapter 5 Aesthetics and Culture; Chapter 6 Race, Gender, Class and Representation; Chapter 7 Popular Culture and its Politics; Chapter 8 Narrative and Entropy; Chapter 9 Envoi;

O autorze

Ioan Davies is Professor of Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada.