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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456655203321

Titolo

Re-reading Richard Hoggart [[electronic resource] ] : life, literature, language, education / / edited by Sue Owen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-19240-X

9786612192401

1-4438-0879-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OwenSusan J

Disciplina

801.95092

Soggetti

Culture - Philosophy

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Richard Hoggart : a personal appreciation / David Lodge -- Richard Hoggart : the intellectual as politician / Fred Inglis -- The legacy of Richard Hoggart : education as democratic practice / Jon Nixon -- To think fearlessly : Richard Hoggart and the politics of the English language / Ben Clarke -- Richard Hoggart and literature / Sue Owen -- The uses of D.H. Lawrence / Sean Matthews -- The anxiety of influence : Hoggart, liminality and Melvyn Bragg's Crossing the line / Katie Wales -- Stances and tones before life : Richard Hoggart and the question of voice / Simon Grimble -- Local habitations : working-class childhood and its uses in the memoirs of Richard Hoggart and others / Michael Rosenfeld -- Questions of taste and class : Richard Hoggart and Bonamy DobreĢe / Tom Steele --  Promoting international understanding and cooperation : Richard Hoggart's UNESCO years (1970-1975) / Malcolm Hadley -- Letter from W.H. Auden to Richard Hoggart, 7 January 1958.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Hoggart has been one of the leading cultural commentators of the last sixty years. He was the first literary critic to take the working class seriously and to extend the parameters of literary criticism to



include popular culture. Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. He differentiated between what was offered by the "popular providers" (media, popular fiction, advertisements) and the resilient culture of working-class people themselves. Hoggart's most famous work is the ...