Summary
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Doing Cultural Theory is a textbook and a toolkit that teaches the basics of cultural theory, unpacks its complexities with real-life examples, and shows readers how to link theory and practice.
Key Features
Offers accessible introductions to how cultural studies has engaged with key theories in structuralism, poststructuralism and postmodernism; Teaches straightforward ways of practicing these theories so students learn to think for themselves; Uses ‘Practice’ boxes to show students how to apply cultural theory in the real world; Guides students through the literature with carefully selected further reading recommendations
Other textbooks only show how others have analyzed and interpreted the world. Doing Cultural Theory takes it a step further and teaches students step-by-step how to do cultural theory for themselves.
Applying Lacan: Techniques for Feminist and Other Forms of Cultural Analysis
Applying Lacan: Techniques for Feminist and Other Forms of Cultural Analysis
Learning Goals
- To understand a number of key Lacanian concepts already introduced in greater depth.
- To be able begin to synthesize the ideas of different writers like Saussure, Althusser, Derrida and Lacan and see how their ideas are related through common ways of thinking (without losing sight of differences).
- To see how a series of Lacanian concepts can be used in practice with a view to developing critical independence.
Concepts
The key concepts introduced in this chapter are master signifiers, the Phallus, penis envy and the subject supposed to know.
Introduction
This chapter consolidates the concepts introduced in the last chapter and further demonstrates how they can be used in practice. ...
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