Other Cultural Critics

Things about Cultural Critics:

1. A literary work should be seen in relation to other works, economic conditions, or social discourse within its context.
2. Culture is alive and it is always changing.
3. Cultural Critics are presnt and even future oriented
4. It is the study of the *arts* not just the study of history.

Cultural Critics, People who Influenced Cultural Criticism:

Jacques Derrida

*there is nothing outside the text*
-We come to know the world through language and even our most worldly actions and practices are dependent upon discourses.
-People habitually things to interprt and evaluate reality, has allowed cultural critics to erase the boundaries beteen high and low culture, classic and popular literary text, and literature and other cultural discourses that may be seen as manifestations of the same texturality.

Michel Foucauclt

-He did not believe taht powere was something exercised by a dominate class over a subervient class.
-power was a tool of conspiracy by one against the other

Michel de Certeau

-Practice of everyday life is Culture

British Influences on Cultural Criticism:

E. P. Thompson - wrote on industrial revolution

Raymond Williams - "culture is ordinary"

Marxist Criticism Infulenced (was the daddy of) Cultural Criticism:

Mikhail Bakhtin
Antonio Gramsci
Walkter Benjamin
Louis Althusser