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Time and commodity culture : essays in cultural theory and postmodernity / John Frow.

Van Pelt Library PN98.P67 F76 1997
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
viii, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Summary:
Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.
Contents:
  • What was postmodernism?
  • Tourism and the semiotics of nostalgia
  • Gift and commodity
  • Toute la mémoire du monde : repetition and forgetting.
Notes:
  • Collection of previously published essays.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-271) and index.
ISBN:
  • 0198159471
  • 019815948X
OCLC:
36330834

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