Literature, Culture and Society

As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literarystudies it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favor of thesemiotics... » 

As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literarystudies it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favor of thesemiotics of popular culture. Literature Culture and Society makes adetermined attempt to reestablish the connections between literary studiescultural studies and sociology.Arguing against both literary humanism and sociological relativism it providesa critical overview of theoretical approaches to textual analysis fromhermeneutics to postmodernism and presents a substantive account of thecapitalist literary mode of production.This second edition has been fully revised and rewritten with new sectionsincluding the impact of psychoanalysis and poststructuralism and the recentwork of academics such as Franco Moretti.New case studies have been added in order to examine the intertextualconnections between Genesis Miltons Paradise Lost Frankenstein inMary Shelleys original and alsoin several film versions Karel CapeksR.U.R. Fritz Langs Metropolis Ridley Scotts Blade Runner The XFiles and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. «