Cultural Theory: The Key ThinkersAndrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick Routledge, 28.07.2005 - 304 Seiten Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike. |
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... nature of the avant-garde is important, because the avantgarde is responding to the art of the past, and is recognising that its solutions to aesthetic problems are no longer adequate. Thus, for Schoenberg, the tonal system that ...
... nature of the avant-garde is important, because the avantgarde is responding to the art of the past, and is recognising that its solutions to aesthetic problems are no longer adequate. Thus, for Schoenberg, the tonal system that ...
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... nature and ethics, since individual happiness necessarily involves concern with those with whom one lives in a community. According to Aristotle there are three forms of worthwhile government: monarchy, aristocracy and polity (the ...
... nature and ethics, since individual happiness necessarily involves concern with those with whom one lives in a community. According to Aristotle there are three forms of worthwhile government: monarchy, aristocracy and polity (the ...
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... nature, can never be regarded as a completely free combination of language forms. Genre, therefore, imposes a constraining effect upon the generation of utterances, and thereby undermines the erxtent to which an individual speaker is ...
... nature, can never be regarded as a completely free combination of language forms. Genre, therefore, imposes a constraining effect upon the generation of utterances, and thereby undermines the erxtent to which an individual speaker is ...
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... nature of writing, authorship and reading; myth and ideology; fashion; photography; narrative; the work of diverse writers (including Sade, Michelet, Proust and Balzac) and composers; and subjectivity and sexuality. Barthes' early works ...
... nature of writing, authorship and reading; myth and ideology; fashion; photography; narrative; the work of diverse writers (including Sade, Michelet, Proust and Balzac) and composers; and subjectivity and sexuality. Barthes' early works ...
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... nature of excess, profanity, heterogeneity and social transgression. Bataille's writings are also marked by an engagement with the thought of such figures as De Sade, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, the poetry of Blake, and the writings of ...
... nature of excess, profanity, heterogeneity and social transgression. Bataille's writings are also marked by an engagement with the thought of such figures as De Sade, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, the poetry of Blake, and the writings of ...
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