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Four Goals of Cultural Studies
Name : Ravi Bhaliya
Roll No : 24
Paper : (8) Cultural Studies
M.A : Sem -2
Enrolment No : 14101004
Year : 2014-15
Email : [email protected]
Submitted To : Smt. S.B Gardi Department of English Maharajakrishnakumarsinhji
• Bhavnagar University
Four Goals
CULTURAL STUDIES TRANSCENDS CONFINES OF PARTICULAR DISCIPLINE SUCH AS LITERARY CRITICISM OR HISTORY
Interdisciplinary it means that Branch of study .
Interdisciplinary involves the combining of two or more academic discipline into one activity.
It is about creating new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them.
It is related to an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic discipline or school of thought as we need and profession emerge.
The term Interdisciplinary is applied within education and training pedagogies to describe studies that use methods and insight of several established discipline or traditional field of history.
Cultural studies is not necessarily about literature in the traditional sense or even about “ art ” , in their Introduction to Cultural studies , editors Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler emphasizes that Intellectual promise of cultural studies lies in its attempts to “ cut across diverse social and political interests and address many of the struggles within the current scene ”
Intellectual works are not limited by their own borders as single texts , historical problems , or disciplines, and critic’s own personal connection to what is being analyzed may also be described.
A curse of disciplinarity
Cultural studies is politically engaged
Cultural critics see themselves as oppositional not only within their own discipline but to many of the power structures of society at large.
They question inequalities within power structure and seek to discover models for restructuring relationship among dominant and minority or subaltern discourses .
Generally the meaning and individual subjectivity are culturally constructed , they can thus be reconstructed .
Such a notion , taken place philosophical extreme , denies the autonomy of the individual, whether an actual person or a character in literature rebuttal of the traditional humanistic great man or great book .
Studies Cultural denies the separation of high and low or elite and popular culture
Cultural critics today works to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whether popular, folk , or urban.
Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Huyseen , the cultural critic who argue that after the worlds second world war the distinction among high, low and mass culture collapsed , and they cite other theorists.
“I came here to get a little culture ”
Cultural studies analyze not only the cultural work, but also the means of production
How to produce the things ?
Marxist critic have long recognized the importance of such literary questions as these
Who supports a given artist ? Who publishes his or her
books, and how are the books distributed ?
Who buys books ?
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