Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
Cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes.
The field of cultural studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, cultural studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields
Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
Cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes.
The field of cultural studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, cultural studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
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Postmodernism
Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
http: www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klagespomo.html
Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic
study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide
variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology,
communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not
clear exactly when postmodernism begins.
Perhaps the easiest way to start thinking about postmodernism is by thinking about modernism, the
movement from which postmodernism seems to grow or emerge. Modernism has two facets, or two
modes of definition, both of which are relevant to understanding postmodernism.
The first facet or definition of modernism comes from the aesthetic movement broadly labeled
"modernism." This movement is roughly coterminous with twentieth century Western ideas about art
(though traces of it in emergent forms can be found in the nineteenth century as well). Modernism, as you
probably know, is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old
Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. In the period of
"high modernism," from around 1910 to 1930, the major figures of modernism literature helped radically
to redefine what poetry and fiction could be and do: figures like Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Stevens,
Proust, Mallarme, Kafka, and Rilke are considered the founders of twentieth-century modernism.
From a literary perspective, the main characteristics of modernism include:
1. an emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity in writing (and in visual arts as well); an emphasis on
HOW seeing (or reading or perception itself) takes place, rather than on WHAT is perceived. An example
of this would be stream-of-consciousness writing.
2. a movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by omniscient third-person narrators, fixed
narrative points of view, and clear-cut moral positions. Faulkner's multiply-narrated stories are an
example of this aspect of modernism.
3. a blurring of distinctions between genres, so that poetry seems more documentary (as in T.S. Eliot or ee
cummings) and prose seems more poetic (as in Woolf or Joyce).
4. an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different
materials.
5. a tendency toward reflexivity, or self-consciousness, about the production of the work of art, so that
each piece calls attention to its own status as a production, as something constructed and consumed in
particular ways.
6. a rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in favor of minimalist designs (as in the poetry of William
Carlos Williams) and a rej.
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Postmodernism
Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
http: www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klagespomo.html
Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic
study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide
variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology,
communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not
clear exactly when postmodernism begins.
Perhaps the easiest way to start thinking about postmodernism is by thinking about modernism, the
movement from which postmodernism seems to grow or emerge. Modernism has two facets, or two
modes of definition, both of which are relevant to understanding postmodernism.
The first facet or definition of modernism comes from the aesthetic movement broadly labeled
"modernism." This movement is roughly coterminous with twentieth century Western ideas about art
(though traces of it in emergent forms can be found in the nineteenth century as well). Modernism, as you
probably know, is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old
Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. In the period of
"high modernism," from around 1910 to 1930, the major figures of modernism literature helped radically
to redefine what poetry and fiction could be and do: figures like Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Stevens,
Proust, Mallarme, Kafka, and Rilke are considered the founders of twentieth-century modernism.
From a literary perspective, the main characteristics of modernism include:
1. an emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity in writing (and in visual arts as well); an emphasis on
HOW seeing (or reading or perception itself) takes place, rather than on WHAT is perceived. An example
of this would be stream-of-consciousness writing.
2. a movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by omniscient third-person narrators, fixed
narrative points of view, and clear-cut moral positions. Faulkner's multiply-narrated stories are an
example of this aspect of modernism.
3. a blurring of distinctions between genres, so that poetry seems more documentary (as in T.S. Eliot or ee
cummings) and prose seems more poetic (as in Woolf or Joyce).
4. an emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives, and random-seeming collages of different
materials.
5. a tendency toward reflexivity, or self-consciousness, about the production of the work of art, so that
each piece calls attention to its own status as a production, as something constructed and consumed in
particular ways.
6. a rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in favor of minimalist designs (as in the poetry of William
Carlos Williams) and a rej ...
10. Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory, which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and/or gender.
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12. Culture is terrain on which ideological representations of class, gender, race are enforced, and contested by social groups validating their experience.
14. operates in the realm of representations and consciousness
15. implies power inequality in different segments of society
16. naturalizes a class ideology and renders it in the form of common sense
17. exercised through ‘authority,’ not physical force
18. operates through institutions (educational system, media and the family)
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20. R. Hoggart was a key figure in the emergence of cultural studies in the late 1950s and 1960s. He founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies ( 1964 ) at the University of Birmingham (the Birmingham school) and wrote a seminal early analysis of working-class culture, The Uses of Literacy ( 1957 ). Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions aloneand there are many translations available. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach. Edward Palmer Thompson was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular his sociological work The Making of the English Working Class (1963). He also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist. He also published the novel The Sykaos Papers and a collection of poetry.
21. Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swisslinguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. Saussure is widely considered to be one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics,and his ideas have had a monumental impact throughout the humanities and social sciences. Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones, died Friday at his home in Paris from natural causes. He was 100. Louis Pierre Althusser was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser is commonly referred to as a Structural Marxist, although his relationship to other schools of French structuralism is not a simple affiliation and he is critical of many aspects of structuralism.
22. « What is important are the significant breaks – where old line of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes. »
23. « Cultural Studies, as a distinctive problematic, emerges from one such moment, in the mid-1950s.» « These three books constituted the caesura out of which- among other things- « Cultural Studies » emerged.» « And this is perhaps the point to note that this line of thinking was roughly coterminous with what has been called the « agenda» of the early New Left…» « Politics of intellectual work ‘ Squarely at the centre of cultural studies from the beginning»
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25. Definition 2 : « refers the social practices » and « the study of relationships between elements in a whole way of life » « the sum of their inter-relationships »
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27. For Williams ‘ culture is threaded through all social practices, and is the sum of their inter-relationship’
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29. What is at stake in the distinction between "culturalism" and "structuralism" is the significance of theory.
30. Hall's discussion of these contesting paradigms is part of a historical narrative of the emergence and development of cultural studies.
31. However, Hall's use of the categories of hegemony and "articulation" does not in and of itself solve the problem of determination, or even provide the elements of such a solution.
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33. Aside from the wholly distinct intellectual and conceptual universes within which these alternative paradigms developed, there were certain points where, despite their apparent overlaps, Culturalism and structuralism were starkly counterposed. We can identify this couterposition at one of its sharpest points precisely around the concept of ‘experience’’
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