Cultural studies and beyond : fragments of empire / Ioan Davies.
"Cultural Studies and Beyond traces the origins, growth and diffusion of Cultural Studies, inside Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. The book looks at the origins of Cultural Studies in the early years of the New Left Review and the Adult Education movements, and introduces the c...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Summary: | "Cultural Studies and Beyond traces the origins, growth and diffusion of Cultural Studies, inside Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. The book looks at the origins of Cultural Studies in the early years of the New Left Review and the Adult Education movements, and introduces the central theoretical issues and key personalities over a near forty year span, beginning in 1956. Ioan Davies argues that Cultural Studies, part social movement and part interdisciplinary studies, emerged and developed in resistance to established definitions of culture. He shows that in so doing, it drew on traditions (in particular those deriving from a reading of Marx) inside and outside Britain that articulated this resistance. The debates about Englishness, gender, race, and difference are covered as well as the love-hate engagements with aesthetics and popular culture. Extensively researched, wide-ranging and lively, this book will be essential reading for both students; and teachers of Cultural Studies, and for all those seeking to understand the recent rapid transformations in the Culture of the West."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415038367 9780415038362 0415038375 9780415038379 0203992415 9780203992418 |