Cultural Studies
Book Details

Cultural Materialism

Andrew Milner

Examines cultural materialism in relation to earlier paradigms such as literary humanism and Marxism.

About this Title

This book places cultural materialism in relation to earlier paradigms such as literary humanism and Marxism, and explains how the new paradigm has been applied to important areas such as cultural studies, media studies and literary studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Culturalism: Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture: Leavisite Idealism, Base and Superstructure: Communist Materialism, Left Culturalism: A Provisional Synthesis; 3. Cultural Materialism: The Politics of Criticism, Culture and Hegemony, Determination Forms and Practices; 4. Application and Implications: Cultural Materialism Structuralism Post-Structuralism, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies; 5. Post-Culturalism and the Politics of Theory; Bibliography; Index

978-0-522-84493-1