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2. Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture

From Li’l Abner to Discourse Theory and Back: A Culture Critic’s Odyssey

verfasst von : Arthur Asa Berger

Erschienen in: When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Chapter 2, Arthur Berger’s “Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture-From Li’l Abner to Discourse Theory and Back: A Culture Critic’s Odyssey” offers a personal chronicle of the birth and growth of popular culture studies. It all comes to a head in the early 1960s with the über-popular comic strip L’il Abner and an unwary graduate student, who set out to pen a thesis on it-the first American study on comic books. From the institutional tiffs and personal fallings-out to tales of piqued pride and full-scale prejudice, we get a front-row seat overview of the decades of scholarly controversies over Main Street’s assault on Art Lane.

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Fußnoten
1
McLuhan, 1951, p. v.
 
2
Theall, 2001, pp. 4–5.
 
3
Rosenberg and White, 1957, p. 7.
 
4
Rosenberg and White, 1957, p. 17.
 
5
Jowett, 1992, p. 2.
 
6
Malinowski, 1922, p. xvi.
 
7
Berger, 1973, pp. 8–9.
 
8
Berger, 1974.
 
9
Barthes, 1972, p. 9.
 
10
MacCannell, 1976, p. 1.
 
11
Cameron and Panovic, 2014, p. 97.
 
12
Lyotard, 1993, p. 8.
 
13
Jameson, 1991, p. 3.
 
14
Saussure, 1966, p. 117; following quote p. 120.
 
15
Culler, 1986, p. 61.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture
verfasst von
Arthur Asa Berger
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0_2