Cultural criticism : a primer of key concepts /

Cultural criticism : a primer of key concepts /

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Author / Creator:Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1995.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 194 pages :) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 4
Foundations of popular culture ; v. 4.
Subject:
Culture.
Criticism.
Communism and culture.
Semiotics -- Social aspects.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Sociology -- Methodology.
Communism and culture.
Communism and culture.
Criticism.
Culture.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Semiotics -- Social aspects.
Sociology -- Methodology.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141804
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ISBN:9781452221069
1452221065
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9781452236421
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-178) and index.
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Summary:Covering the key theorists, concepts and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories of semiotics and Marxism, Berger brings cultural criticism to life by making these theories relevant to students' lives. Illustrating his explanations with excerpts from classic works, he gives readers a sense of the style of important thinkers and helps place them in context.
Other form:Print version: Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933- Cultural criticism. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1995
Table of Contents:
  • 1. An introduction to cultural criticism
  • The Mission impossible dream
  • Cultural criticism and cultural studies
  • On technical language
  • Making complex ideas accessible
  • Thinkers evolve and change their ideas over time
  • A useful analogy
  • 2. Literary theory and cultural criticism
  • Mimesis and other theories of literature
  • Texts
  • Genres and texts
  • Interpretation of texts
  • Hermeneutics
  • Reception theory
  • Deconstruction
  • Postmodernism
  • Feminist criticism
  • Phallocentric theory
  • Formalism
  • Defamiliarization
  • Dialogical theory
  • Montage and meaning
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Marxism and cultural criticism
  • Base/superstructure
  • The Frankfurt school of criticism
  • The bourgeoisie
  • Class
  • Alienation
  • Commodity fetishism
  • Consumer culture
  • Interpellation
  • Ideology
  • Cultural imperialism
  • Hegemony
  • Reproduction
  • Political cultures
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Semiotics and cultural criticism
  • Signs in semiotics and semiology
  • How signs function
  • Symbols in Saussure's system
  • Icon, index, symbol : Peirce's system
  • Images
  • Codes
  • Connotation
  • Denotation
  • Metaphor
  • Metonymy
  • Synchronic analysis and diachronic analysis
  • Intertextuality
  • Auteur theory
  • Syntagmatic analysis
  • Paradigmatic analysis
  • Structuralism
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Psychoanalytic theory and cultural criticism
  • The unconscious
  • The id
  • The ego
  • The superego
  • The Oedipus complex
  • Condensation
  • Displacement
  • Narcissism
  • Sublimation
  • Overdetermination
  • Myth
  • Archetype
  • Heroes
  • Shadow
  • Anima/animus
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Sociological theory and cultural criticism
  • Culture
  • Multiculturalism
  • DWEMs
  • Political correctness
  • Anomie
  • Functionalism
  • Sacred/profane
  • Mass media theory
  • Mass society
  • Media/medium
  • Audience
  • Stereotyping-- Popular culture
  • Everyday life
  • Conclusion.

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