NET CLASSES 2020

1. /GSET
Coaching Lectures 2020

2. Paper 2 English Literature
• 1 Drama
• 2 Poetry
• 3 Fiction, Short Stories
• 4 Non-Fictional Prose
• 5 Language – Basic Concepts, Theories and Pedagogy
• 6 English in India: History, Evolution and Futures
• 7 Cultural Studies
• 8 Literary Criticism
• 9 Literary Theory Post World War 2
• 10 Research Methods and Materials in English

3. Cultural Studies
Part 1
Ms. Vaidehi Hariyani
(GSET 2019, Research Scholar)
Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

5. ‘Culture’ in general
• ‘ Culture’ ‘cultura’ ‘colere’ ‘to cultivate’.
• It is also meant to ‘honour’ and ‘protect’.
• Habits, Customs, Rituals, Tastes…
• Cultural artifacts…

6. ‘Culture’ – in Cultural Studies
• Mode of generating new ideas.
• ‘Mode’ is a negotiation over which meanings are valid.
• Meanings are governed by Power relations.
• Elite Culture controls meanings.
• Non-Elite views are seen as ‘tasteless’, ‘Useless’.

7. Cultural Studies
• An academic discipline
• Study the ways in which literary texts are theorized and read.
• Inter-disciplinary field of study that investigates politics, political
economy, sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, ethnography,
communication and media theories and much more…
• To comprehend the ideological base on which a literary text is built.
• CS opens up the gates to investigates text in wider sense.
• From literary texts to movies, from classic art to popular culture.

8. History
Liberal
Humanism
Orthodox
Marxism
Cultural Studies was the NEW
LEFT MARXISM
So it emerged in 1950s.

9. • Drew upon the ‘Culture and
civilization’ in literary studies from
Mathew Arnold’s ‘Culture and
Anarchy’ (1869)
• The Aristocrat Class, The Philistines,
and The Populace.
• Reached to its peak in the works of
F.R.Leavis and Q.D.Leavis (1930s-
1940s)
• Narrow definition of Value in Culture
• Rejected Popular Culture as
contaminated by Capitalism.

10. Popularized
‘The Uses of Literacy’ 1957 – Richard
Hoggart
‘Culture and Society’ 1958 – Raymond
Williams

11. Origin of CCCS
• Richard Hoggart established “Centre
for Contemporary Cultural Studies” in
Birmingham in 1964.
• He was the first director of the CCCS.
• It was formed as a result of re-
evaluation of the class/elite character
of culture as appeared in the
traditional literary studies.
• Richard Hoggart appointed Stuart Hall
as assistant by 1971 and by 1971 he
became the director of CCCS.
• In the late 1990s, ‘restructuring’ of the
university led to the elimination of
CCCS.

12. Four Goals
of Cultural
Studies
Politically Engaged
Analyze not only the
cultural work, but
means of Production.
Transcends the confines
of particular discipline
such literary criticism
and history
Denies separation of
‘high’ and ‘low’ culture

13. The Pioneer of Cultural Studies
• Richard Hoggart (1918-2014)
• E.P.Thompson (1924 – 1993)
• Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
• Stuart Hall (1932-2014)

14. HAPPY LEARNING!!!
• Works Cited
• Babu, Chithrakala. Easy Handbook on Contemporary Literary Theory
and Cultural Studies. Ed. Dr.Kalyani Vallath. Bodhi Tree Books &
Publications, 2019. Print.
• Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies. Viva Books
Private Limited, 2016. Print.