The practice of value : essays on literature in cultural studies / John Frow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frow, John, author.

Series:

UWAP Scholarly

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature and society.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The essays collected here ... are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures."--Publishers website

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part One: Regimes of value; 1 Literature as regime (Meditations on an emergence); 2 Afterlife: texts as usage; 3 A pebble, a camera, a man who turns into a telegraph pole; 4 Invidious distinction: waste, difference and classy stuff; 5 The practice of value; Part Two: The commons in information; 6 Signature and brand; 7 The archive under threat; 8 An ethics of imitation; Part Three: Disciplines; 9 Is Elvis a god? Cult, culture, questions of method; 10 Discipline and discipleship; 11 On mid-level concepts; Part Four: Settlement; 12 In the penal colony

13 A politics of stolen time14 Settlement; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-74258-582-5

OCLC:

904209724