Culture | 1. The practice of everyday life and how it relates to to popular, folk, urban, mass, etc.
2. Not necessarily *high society*
3. Culture acts as a kinetic force, in continual evolution. It should NOT be perceived as a solid entity, but a set of interactive cultures.
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Cultural Criticism | 1. The understanding of social, political, historical, and artistic contexts in which a given text was written. Also, the critic examines the conditions the literature was written in, circulated to the public and subsequently responded to by both the critics and the public.
2. Cultural critics define the reasons, usually political, why a certain aesthetic or cultural product is more valued than others. In doing so, they examine value hierarchies that have been established within such categories as class, race, nation origin, gender, sexuality, feminism, etc.
3. Cultural critics recognize that sometimes disheartening but always dynamic synergy between cultural forms and the culture8s consumers.
4. The established philsophy of a society fills individual perception, sense of self, and ultimately sense of reality. This deffinetly affects the production of literature. |