ENGB37H3 Lecture Notes - Frankfurt School, Great Fear, F. R. Leavis
Document Summary
Engb37 lecture 2: theories of popular culture hunger games. What influences it and what is the context of literature. Metanarratives the big idea of the story of what is going on. Began to define genre as poetry, drama, prose: literary writers (margaret atwood) tends to not write in a specific genre but tends to mix it up, writers that push the envelope introduce unexpected twists and turns. They combine genres, bring in different things. With the vampire novel, the writer brings different elements such as horror, sci fi, romance, etc: this can restrict creativity: tyranny of genre, conventions of genre continually shifting, combining unstable (e. g. , sci fi, horror, crime, etc. ) The culture and civilization tradition: 19th century: industrialization and urbanization; class segregation, separate culture: developed by people often radical) and new entrepreneurs, end of shared common culture: 2 nations (disraeli): direct challenge to elite. Prime minister of england: matthew arnold wrote culture and anarchy .
