Peter Childs

Texts

Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches

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Produktbeschreibung

Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, including established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Texts provides students with an innovative introduction to contemporary culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780748620449
• ISBN-10: 0748620443
• Artikelnr.: 22332931

Autorenporträt

Peter Childs is Dean of Research and Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire where he teaches twentieth-century and post-colonial literature. He has published widely in the areas of modern writing, British culture and critical theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Starting Points
1. Film: The Matrix and The I-pod
Approach: Cyberphilosophy
2. Building: Shopping in Utopia
Approach: Spatial Criticism
3. Movie Poster: Alien Nature
Approach: Ecocriticism
4. Pop video: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and 'race'
Approach: 'Race' Studies
5. Celebrity: Diana and Death
Approach: Trauma Theory
6. TV show: Big Brother after the big Other
Approach: Performativity Theory
7. Newspaper article: The Gulf War in Real Time and Virtual Space
Approach: Hyperreality
8. Photograph(er): Cindy Sherman and the Masquerade
Approach: Feminism
9. Political speech: Margaret Thatcher's Hymn at the Sermon on the Mound
Approach: Historicism
10. Critical text: Alan Sokal's Sham Transgression
Approach: Reading Postmodernism
11. Popular novel: The Ethics of Harry Potter
Approach: Ethical Criticism
12. Short story: Barthelme's Balloon and the Rhizome
Approach: Deleuzian Criticism
13. Lyric: 'Where's my Snare?': Eminem and Sylvia Plath
Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism
14. Autobiography: Martin Amis's Experience
Approach: Self-Life-Writing
15. Virtual text: Amazonian Democracy
Approach: Globalization Studies
16. World media event: It's About Time: Cultural History at the Millennium
Approach: Cultural Studies.