Culture/metaculture / / Francis Mulhern

• Autore: Mulhern Francis
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture
• ISBN: 1-134-85221-5; 0-203-17005-9; 1-134-85222-3; 9780203170059; 0-203-12982-2; 1-280-32922-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972115203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The New Critical Idiom