ENGL309C Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Ruling Class
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Cultural studies and critical studies explore power structures and discourse. Cultural studies: a discipline that is concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of meanings in industrialized societies (borchers, 328): often has a political agenda. Critical studies: brummet (1994) defines critical studies as a group of theories that are critical in attitude, methodological, concerned with power, and interventionist (quoted by. Both cultural studies and critical studies: share origins in marxist theories, reject the idea that discourse, rhetoric, and literature should only be approached through structure and technique predominant technique (new criticism) from. 1950-1980: explore meaning of texts within cultural contexts, a text is a set of symbols that can be seen to produce meaning (172) books, films, clothing, architecture, lifestyles, etc, expose political agendas. Generation and circulation of meaning in industrial societies. The history of culture and social structure as impacts discourse.
