Practice of Value : Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- UWAP Scholarly .
- UWAP Scholarly .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Regimes of value -- 1 Literature as regime (Meditations on an emergence) -- 2 Afterlife: texts as usage -- 3 A pebble, a camera, a man who turns into a telegraph pole -- 4 Invidious distinction: waste, difference and classy stuff -- 5 The practice of value -- Part Two: The commons in information -- 6 Signature and brand -- 7 The archive under threat -- 8 An ethics of imitation -- Part Three: Disciplines -- 9 Is Elvis a god? Cult, culture, questions of method -- 10 Discipline and discipleship -- 11 On mid-level concepts -- Part Four: Settlement -- 12 In the penal colony -- 13 A politics of stolen time -- 14 Settlement -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Literature and society. Popular culture.