Contemporary Cultural Theory

Table of contents

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• Contemporary Cultural Theory *
• Title Page *
• Acknowledgements vi
• Contents vii
• 1 - Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory 1
• 2 - Literature and Society: from Culturalism to Cultural Materialism 21
• 3 - Critical Theory: from Ideology Critique to the Sociology of Culture 57
• 4 - Semiology: from Structuralism to Post-Structuralism 92
• 5 - The Cultural Politics of Difference 128
• 6 - Postmodernism and Cultural Theory 164
• 7 - Cultural Criticism and Cultural Policy 203
• Glossary 224
• Appendix - The Institutionalisation of Academic Cultural Studies 242
• Bibliography 245
• Index 265