Literature, Culture and Society

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Literature, culture and the canon .....1 Literary studies: classics, comparative literature english literature .......3 Literature as value: the canon,criticism, minority culture .......5 From literary to cultural studies: The sociological turn ......11 Elitism, populism and immodest cultural studies ........18 2 Analytical strategies .......27 Hermeneutics .....28 Cultural materialism .....31 The sociology of culture ......36 Theories of ideology .......41 Semiology and semiotics ........47 The cultural politics of difference .....52 Postmodernism ......55 3 Mechanical reproduction: The forces of production .....61 The literary mode of production ......62 Mechanical reproduction .......65 The print media .....67 The audio-visual media .....74 Cultural form .....81 The sociology of the novel .....85 4 Commodity culture: The relations of production ......95 Print-capitalism ......96 Writers and writing ......104 Readers and readings ......118 The state,ideology and the market ....125 5 Texts and context: From genesis to frankenstein ......131 Genesis ....132 Paradise lost .......138 Frankenstein ....149 6 Texts and contexts: From frankenstein to blade runner ......161 Frankenstein in the cinema ......162 Blade runner ......167 Conclusion: loose canons and fallen angels .....177