Culture/metaculture / Francis Mulhern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulhern, Francis.

Series:

The New Critical Idiom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines:* culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis* changing views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot and Richard Hoggart* post-war theories of 'popular' culture and the rise of Cultural Studies, paying particular attention to the key figures of Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall* theori

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Against mass civilization; In the wars; Welfare?; A reckoning; A theory; A centre; A theatre of critical situations; Towards popular culture?; NOTES; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-85221-5

0-203-17005-9

1-134-85222-3

9780203170059

0-203-12982-2

1-280-32922-X

9780203129821

OCLC:

48139147