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Culture/Metaculture (New Critical Idiom)

By Francis Mulhern

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
9780415102292, 0415102294, 9780203170052, 9780415102308, 0415102308
Open Library ID
OL7482837M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1357755 bytes)
Series
New Critical Idiom
Edition
1
Pages
221\221
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Francis Mulhern offers a stimulating and concise introduction to the meanings of "culture" in contemporary Western society. In this critical survey, he provides a compelling account of the conceptual and political issues involved in the changing definitions of "culture," as well as critical summaries of key thinkers, such as Mann, Arnold, Freud, Sartre, Woolf and Eliot, and their theories of twentieth-century culture. Mulhern also provides an understanding of the history of debates over high and low culture using an interdisciplinary approach which traverses the boundaries between literary and cultural studies.

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