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Texts : Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches / Peter Childs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748620432
  • 9780748629183
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.95 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: STARTING POINTS -- CHAPTER 1 FILM: THE MATRIX AND THE I-POD Approach: Cyberphilosophy -- CHAPTER 2 BUILDING: SHOPPING IN UTOPIA Approach: Spatial Criticism -- CHAPTER 3 MOVIE POSTER: ALIEN NATURE Approach: Ecocriticism -- CHAPTER 4 POP VIDEO: MICHAEL JACKSON’S ‘THRILLER’ AND ‘RACE’ Approach: ‘Race’ Studies -- CHAPTER 5 CELEBRITY: DIANA AND DEATH Approach: Trauma Theory -- CHAPTER 6 TV SHOW: BIG BROTHER AFTER THE BIG OTHER Approach: Performativity Theory -- CHAPTER 7 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: THE GULF WAR IN REAL TIME AND VIRTUAL SPACE Approach: Hyperreality -- CHAPTER 8 PHOTOGRAPH(ER): CINDY SHERMAN AND THE MASQUERADE Approach: Feminism -- CHAPTER 9 POLITICAL SPEECH: MARGARET THATCHER’S HYMN AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUND Approach: Historicism -- CHAPTER 10 CRITICAL TEXT: ALAN SOKAL’S SHAM TRANSGRESSION Approach: Reading Postmodernism -- CHAPTER 11 POPULAR NOVEL: THE ETHICS OF HARRY POTTER Approach: Ethical Criticism -- CHAPTER 12 SHORT STORY: BARTHELME’S BALLOON AND THE RHIZOME Approach: Deleuzian Criticism -- CHAPTER 13 LYRIC: ‘WHERE’S MY SNARE?’: EMINEM AND SYLVIA PLATH Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism -- CHAPTER 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MARTIN AMIS’S EXPERIENCE Approach: Self-Life-Writing -- CHAPTER 15 VIRTUAL TEXT: AMAZONIAN DEMOCRACY Approach: Globalization Studies -- CHAPTER 16 WORLD MEDIA EVENT: IT’S ABOUT TIME: CULTURAL HISTORY AT THE MILLENNIUM Approach: Cultural Studies -- INDEX
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620449);Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied on today's courses. These texts range from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites and lyrics to films such as The Matrix and Harry Potter and from television's Big Brother 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, from established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Each chapter also indicates alternative ways of reading the text by drawing on other critical approaches. Texts:is the first student guide to examine visual, virtual and performance texts alongside written texts reflecting the broadening range of the contemporary literature syllabusdemonstrates clearly how students can analyse a familiar text in different ways, a core skill which many find difficultprovides a student introduction to contemporary culture via well known popular texts and literary theories."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: STARTING POINTS -- CHAPTER 1 FILM: THE MATRIX AND THE I-POD Approach: Cyberphilosophy -- CHAPTER 2 BUILDING: SHOPPING IN UTOPIA Approach: Spatial Criticism -- CHAPTER 3 MOVIE POSTER: ALIEN NATURE Approach: Ecocriticism -- CHAPTER 4 POP VIDEO: MICHAEL JACKSON’S ‘THRILLER’ AND ‘RACE’ Approach: ‘Race’ Studies -- CHAPTER 5 CELEBRITY: DIANA AND DEATH Approach: Trauma Theory -- CHAPTER 6 TV SHOW: BIG BROTHER AFTER THE BIG OTHER Approach: Performativity Theory -- CHAPTER 7 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: THE GULF WAR IN REAL TIME AND VIRTUAL SPACE Approach: Hyperreality -- CHAPTER 8 PHOTOGRAPH(ER): CINDY SHERMAN AND THE MASQUERADE Approach: Feminism -- CHAPTER 9 POLITICAL SPEECH: MARGARET THATCHER’S HYMN AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUND Approach: Historicism -- CHAPTER 10 CRITICAL TEXT: ALAN SOKAL’S SHAM TRANSGRESSION Approach: Reading Postmodernism -- CHAPTER 11 POPULAR NOVEL: THE ETHICS OF HARRY POTTER Approach: Ethical Criticism -- CHAPTER 12 SHORT STORY: BARTHELME’S BALLOON AND THE RHIZOME Approach: Deleuzian Criticism -- CHAPTER 13 LYRIC: ‘WHERE’S MY SNARE?’: EMINEM AND SYLVIA PLATH Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism -- CHAPTER 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MARTIN AMIS’S EXPERIENCE Approach: Self-Life-Writing -- CHAPTER 15 VIRTUAL TEXT: AMAZONIAN DEMOCRACY Approach: Globalization Studies -- CHAPTER 16 WORLD MEDIA EVENT: IT’S ABOUT TIME: CULTURAL HISTORY AT THE MILLENNIUM Approach: Cultural Studies -- INDEX

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620449);Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied on today's courses. These texts range from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites and lyrics to films such as The Matrix and Harry Potter and from television's Big Brother 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, from established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Each chapter also indicates alternative ways of reading the text by drawing on other critical approaches. Texts:is the first student guide to examine visual, virtual and performance texts alongside written texts reflecting the broadening range of the contemporary literature syllabusdemonstrates clearly how students can analyse a familiar text in different ways, a core skill which many find difficultprovides a student introduction to contemporary culture via well known popular texts and literary theories."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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