Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:24:08 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Cultural studies (Was Henry Miller...)



>hh
>
>PS  It should not seem surprising that an English professor should
>head a CS program somewhere.  One of the "founding fathers" of CS
>was Richard Hoggart, an English teacher who shifted techniques of
>close literary analysis from texts (as he had been trained) to the
>everyday life and culture of English working class families, analyzing
>everything from their pop music to window knick knacks in his book
>The Uses of Literacy (1957).  Hoggart was also the first director
>of the Centre for Cultural Studies in Birmingham, and the guy who
>coined the term "Cultural Studies."

Interesting as well I think, is that Marxism, Freudianism, and the new
criticism (so called) all share the notion that they are analytic methods
in the main, that they are innocent of foundational content in and of
themselves. So also Cultural Studies pretends, and "Critical" cultural
studies post Terry Eagleton especially.

All of them deal with texts, or rather, treat their subject matters as if
they were texts (Lacan makes this especially clear with Freud).

g




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