Cultural Materialism

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Pub. Date: 1989-04-30
Publisher(s): Melbourne University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dr Andrew Milner is the author of Contemporary Cultural Theory (1991) and John Milton and the English Revolution (1981) and co-author of Discourse and Difference (1990) and Postmodern Conditions (1988). He was director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introductionp. 1
Culturalismp. 13
Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture: Leavisite Idealismp. 14
Base and Superstructure: Communist Materialismp. 23
Left Culturalism: A Provisional Synthesisp. 32
Cultural Materialismp. 43
The Politics of Criticismp. 44
Culture and Hegemonyp. 51
Determination, Forms and Practicesp. 60
Applications and Implicationsp. 71
Cultural Materialism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralismp. 72
Cultural Studiesp. 75
Literary Studiesp. 91
Post-Culturalism and the Politics of Theoryp. 105
Bibliographyp. 119
Indexp. 133
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