Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1. Sociology of Literature -- Chapter 1. Sociology and Literature -- Chapter 2. The 'English' Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia -- Chapter 3. The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- Chapter 4. On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism -- Chapter 5. Loose Canons and Fallen Angels -- Chapter 6. Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams -- Chapter 7. Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory -- Chapter 8. It's the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art -- Chapter 9. Science Fiction and the Literary Field -- Chapter 10. World Systems and World Science Fiction -- Part 2. Cultural Materialism -- Chapter 11. Considerations on English Marxism -- Chapter 12. Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism -- Chapter 13. The Revolutions in Favour of Capital -- Chapter 14. Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams -- Chapter 15. Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia -- Chapter 16. Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class -- Chapter 17. Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies -- Chapter 18. From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism -- Part 3. Science Fiction -- Chapter 19. Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams -- Chapter 20. Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema -- Chapter 21. Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency -- Chapter 22. Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction
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Ethnic stereotypes are cognitive markers that are formed and modified because of intercultural contact with a new cultural group. There is now much empirical evidence that explicates how stereotypes of ethnic groups can impact individuals' acculturation experiences. However, what is unknown is how previously nonexistent ethnic beliefs are formed as a result of contact with the local culture. One hundred and seventy-four (N = 174) overseas Chinese construction workers were contacted through the Chinese Consulate in Montenegro and agreed to participate in the present study. The online questionnaire asked workers to describe Montenegrin majority members in terms of five characteristics. These traits formed the stereotype markers that were classified as positive, neutral, or negative. Sojourners also answered questions that measured perceived cultural distance, social exclusion, knowledge of Montenegrin culture, feelings of social exclusion, and their sociocultural adaptation. Results show that both positive and negative stereotypes are correlated with less social exclusion and better socio-cultural adaptation. Perceived cultural distance, knowledge of host culture and length of stay was mediated by stereotypes on adaptation outcomes. Interestingly longer sojourn did not lessen the type of stereotype, nor did it reduce cultural distance. Contribution to the stereotype literature and practical understanding of how Chinese sojourners see majority members will be discussed.
This paper proposes that Dickens's Bleak House is symptomatic of a so-called social realm, in which neither oikos nor polis exists as a distinct, autonomous entity; therefore, neither can offer sanctuary or adequately discharge the historical role of the household – maintaining life. In this zone of indistinction, the symbolic structures of London's law have become the city's physical structures, leading to symptoms like Jo the outlaw, whose illness and death is attributed to the failure of both the polis and the oikos – the city's legal housekeeping and the law-as-house, respectively – to maintain life. London's law has become so immanent that it takes on the role of religion, thus precluding God's transcendence. Ultimately, the novel recoils from London's threatening presence and attempts to inter the nineteenth-century anxieties associated with the city – anxieties centering around the law both as structure and religion – through redemptive repetition: Bleak House attempts to wrest the oikos from the clutches of the polis. But despite the novel's efforts, as the divisions between oikos and polis collapse, it is ultimately impossible for either sphere to retain any semblance of itself. As a result, retreat from the polis to the oikos is impossible: there are no longer well-defined domains – of oikos or polis – into which to retreat in the growing indistinction of the social realm.
A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley's classic novel. Frankenbook is a collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The project launched in January 2018, as part of Arizona State University's celebration of the novel's 200th anniversary. Even two centuries later, Shelley's modern myth continues to shape the way people imagine science, technology, and their moral consequences. Frankenbook gives readers the opportunity to trace the scientific, technological, political, and ethical dimensions of the novel, and to learn more about its historical context and enduring legacy.
This discourse analysis examines a collection of short stories, entitled Schattensprünge: Geschichten rund um die Berliner Mauer, spanning the period of divided Germany (1949-1989) and the effect of this era on the mentality of the German people, particularly in the areas of politics, religion, society and economics. The separation of the country created a culture of fear, struggle and deceit, separated families, encouraged big government secrecy, and proved that socialism leads to economic catastrophe. Both before the Wall went up in 1961 to the time of its destruction in 1989, the German people were faced with having to rebuild their nation after war and the added strain of a divided country caused more unrest in the nation as a whole. The suffering of divided families caused by the Wall and a culture of distrust created by the Orwellian East German government was contrasted with the economically-flourishing and democratic society of the West. These texts illustrate the magnitude of the Berlin Wall and how it affected the society and culture of the German people. Our analyses of the 19 personal stories and experiences related in this collection reveal how the 40-year division of a Volk affected politics, religion, society and economics in the lives of the authors. These specific examples from regular people illustrate life in Germany on both sides of the Wall.
The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day. - Amazon book description
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: On Victorian Time Historiographies of Culture -- 1 The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror -- 2 The Legacy of Victorian Spectacle -- Part 2: Victorian Commodities for Postmodern Consumers -- 3 The New Victorians -- 4 More Stories about Clothing and Furniture -- Part 3: The Ways Victorians Live Now -- 5 Wilde Americana -- 6 Victorians on Broadway at the Present Time -- 7 Rounding Up the Usual Suspect -- 8 Legal Uses of Victorian Fic -- 9 "Nurs'd up amongst the scenes I have describ'd" -- 10 Revisiting the Serial Format of Dickens's Novels -- or, Little Dorrit Goes a Long Way -- 11 Disseminating Victorian Culture in the Postmillennial Classroom -- Contributors -- Index.
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Purpose. The aim of the study is to draw attention to the key importance of a broadly understood culture in benchmarking analyses. An attempt was made to indicate the types of cultures and some of their aspects which may significantly limit or hinder benchmarking activities among tourism enterprises.
Method. The basic research method was a critical review of literature, partly supported by examples from the author's own research conducted over several years.
Findings. An original concept was presented regarding the inclusion of three key cultural issues playing an important role at every phase of benchmarking in both domestic and international companies. Awareness of the given cultural aspects often constitutes the effectiveness and correctness of implementing the method.
Research and conclusions limitations. This is primarily a theoretical elaboration which reflects the author's own views and research experiences. Some of the considerations are conclusions from the literature review which have not been verified empirically and refer only to the specific tourist industry.
Practical implications. Awareness of cultural issues may help and improve managerial work in implementing benchmarking.
Originality. A comprehensive approach to the issue, unprecedented in previously published works, taking the significant impact of broadly understood culture on the course of benchmarking analyses onto account.
Type of work. An editorial and concept article mainly based on English literature.
"This book proposes that Ballard's novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centered around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard's novels reminds us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism"--
