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Contemporary cultural theory (3rd ed.) Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt Published by Allen & Unwin (2002) |
Book description
This lucid and concise overview brings a much-needed sense of
historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies.
The authors identify six major paradigms in cultural theory:
utilitarianism; culturalism and cultural materialism; critical theory
and the sociology of culture; structuralist and post-structuralist
semiology; difference theory; and postmodernism. They outline the social
and discursive contexts within which each of these has developed, and
provide the essential grounding to understand current debates in the
field. This third edition of Contemporary cultural theory
has been extensively revised to include new material on the new
historicism, Zizek, Bourdieu, Deleuze and Guattari, queer theory, black
and Latino cultural studies, cultural policy and posthumanism. A
rigorous and accessible guide to the often tricky manoeuvres of
literary, social and cultural theorists in recent years, Contemporary
Cultural Theory is an invaluable resource for all students of the
many disciplines now informed by cultural theory.
About the Author
Andrew Milner is Professor and Director of the Centre of Comparative
Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. He is author
of Cultural materialism (1993), Literature, culture and
society (1996), Class (1999) and Re-imagining cultural
studies (2002).
Jeff Browitt teaches in Spanish, Comparative Literature and Cultural
Studies at Monash University. He has published on French
sociocriticism and Latin American literature.
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