You will gain an appreciation of contemporary theories of popular culture and critiques of the everyday.Ģ.
In other words, this course will help you examine how the critical and celebratory aspects of popular literature/culture often work simultaneously, and how this double function is important in managing our everyday lives and desires.ġ. Belonging to such different articulations, the ‘popular’ requires its own analytic framework, one which addresses the social history no less than the psychology of the desires we call our own, which sustain the market and shape our political unconscious. Since ‘the popular’ is all around us in this way, this course aims to clarify what constitutes ‘the popular’, by examining various aspects of popular literature–cultural nationalisms, the culture industry, the radical roots of popular culture in working class traditions. Shakespeare’s plays, Dickens’ novels, and Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland are now firmly entrenched in the academic web of literary criticism and theory. One might be surprised at how much of the canon of English literature began as ‘popular literature’. ‘Popular Literature’ is a highly contentious term often confused with commercially popular genres such as romance and suspense. Eng 381: Critique and Celebration of Everyday Life
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