Simon During

Exit Capitalism

Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415246552
• ISBN-10: 0415246555
• Artikelnr.: 26218344

Autorenporträt

Simon During teaches at the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Professoral Fellow at the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His most recent books are Modern Enchantments: the cultural power of secular magic (2002) and Cultural Studies: a critical introduction (2005). He is also the editor of the three editions of the Cultural Studies Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Modernizing the English Literary Field 1. Church,
State and Modernization: Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688 2.
Quackery, Selfhood and the Emergence of the Modern Cultural Marketplace 3.
Interesting: the Politics of the Sympathetic Imagination Part 2: Towards
Endgame Capitalism: Literature, Theory, Culture 4. World Literature,
Stalinism and the Nation: Christina Stead as Lost Object 5. Socialist Ends:
the Emergence of Academic Theory in Postwar Britain 6. Completing
Secularism: the Mundane in the Neo-Liberal Era 7. Refusing Capitalism?
Theory and Cultural Studies after 1968