Literature and Mass Culture
Subtitle: Volume 1, Communication in Society
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780203787083
Subjects: Interpersonal communication; Philosophy; Popular culture; Literature; Sociology
Description: "This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents Lowenthal's contributions to a theory of the role of communication in modern society. This volume lays out the basis for a theory of mass culture. Lowenthal demonstrates that the juxtaposition of a "low"mass culture and a "high"esoteric culture did not originate in contemporary industrial, bourgeois society but can be traced back to the Middle Ages and antiquity."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part Part I Historical and Empirical Studies --; title: chapter 1 Historical Perspectives of Popular Culture --; title: chapter 2 The Debate Over Art and Popular Culture: A Synopsis --; title: chapter Excursus A: Notes on the eater and the Sermon --; title: Notes on the eater and the Sermon --; title: chapter 3 Eighteenth Century England: A Case Study --; title: chapter Excursus B: --; title: e Debate on Cultural Standards in Nineteenth Century England --; title: chapter 4 The Reception of Dostoevski in Pre-World War I  -- Germany; title: chapter 5 The Biographical Fashion --; title: chapter 6e Triumph of Mass Idols --; title: chapter Excursus C: Some Thoughts on the 1937 Edition of International --; title: Some Thoughts on the 1937 Edition of International  -- Who's Who; title: part Part II Contributions to the Philosophy of Communication --; title: chapter 7 On Sociology of Literature (1932) --; title: chapter 8 On Sociology of Literature (1948) --; title: chapter 9 Humanistic Perspectives of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd --; title: chapter 10 Popular Culture: A Humanistic and Sociological Concept --