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Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge
Richard E. Lee
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Paperback. Presents a comprehensive social history of the cultural studies movement. Tracing British literary criticism from the French Revolution through the 1960s, this book describes how cultural studies in its infancy recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New Left's concerns for history and popular culture. Series: Philosophy & postcoloniality. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence of cultural studies at the intersection of post–1945 international and British politics and a two-hundred-year history of conservative critical practice. Tracing British criticism from the period of the French Revolution through the 1960s, he describes how cultural studies in its infancy recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New Left’s concerns for history and popular ... Read more
Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence of cultural studies at the intersection of post–1945 international and British politics and a two-hundred-year history of conservative critical practice. Tracing British criticism from the period of the French Revolution through the 1960s, he describes how cultural studies in its infancy recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New Left’s concerns for history and popular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy & postcoloniality
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822331735
SKU
V9780822331735
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About Richard E. Lee
Richard E. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Reviews for Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge
“Richard E. Lee’s tome is an ambitious grand narrative which places the emergence and expansion of cultural studies within the vast, world-historical context of crisis and transformation of the intellectual structures through which we know and live in the world today. A compelling read.”—Ien Ang, author of On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West "Richard E. Lee’s ... Read more