ISBN:
9781405194945
,
1283407671
,
9781283407670
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 219 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Richard Hoggart
DDC:
306.092
Keywords:
Hoggart, Richard
;
Intellectuals Biography
;
Critics Biography
;
Critics ; Great Britain ; Biography
;
Hoggart, Richard ; 1918-
;
Intellectuals ; Great Britain ; Biography
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation.Re-examines the reputation of one of the ‘inventors’ of Cultural StudiesUses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevanceAddresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academiaBrings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history
Description / Table of Contents:
UNDERSTANDING RICHARD HOGGART: A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literature, Language, and Politics; The Uses of Literature; Hoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises; The Language of 'Theory'; The Common Reader; Democratic Criticism; 2 The Politics of Autobiography; Cultural Studies and Autobiography; Generic Conventions; Representing Working-Class Lives; Situating the Critic; 3 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship; Scholarship Boy; University Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning
Description / Table of Contents:
The Grammar School and Working-Class Education'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition'; 4 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History; History and Cultural Studies; Locating Richard Hoggart; Richard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History; Historians and Richard Hoggart; 'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart; 5 Media, Culture, and Society; The BBC and Society; The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington; Diversity, Authority, and Quality; The Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Policy, Pedagogy, and IntellectualsAn International Servant; The Idea of University Adult Education; The Role of the Intellectual; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
UNDERSTANDING RICHARD HOGGART: A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literature, Language, and Politics; The Uses of Literature; Hoggart in Context: Post-war Britain and the Leavises; The Language of 'Theory'; The Common Reader; Democratic Criticism; 2 The Politics of Autobiography; Cultural Studies and Autobiography; Generic Conventions; Representing Working-Class Lives; Situating the Critic; 3 Working-Class Intellectuals and Democratic Scholarship; Scholarship Boy; University Adult Education and the Varieties of Learning; The Grammar School and Working-Class Education'Working-Class Intellectuals' and the 'Great Tradition'; 4 Cultural Studies and the Uses of History; History and Cultural Studies; Locating Richard Hoggart; Richard Hoggart and the Emergence of Social History; Historians and Richard Hoggart; 'Nostalgia', 'Romanticism', and 'Sentimentality': Recuperating Hoggart; 5 Media, Culture, and Society; The BBC and Society; The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting and Pilkington; Diversity, Authority, and Quality; The Limits and Possibilities of Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century; 6 Policy, Pedagogy, and IntellectualsAn International Servant; The Idea of University Adult Education; The Role of the Intellectual; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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