DeutschesFachbuch.de : Introduction to the Study of British Culture Von Merle Tönnies, Claus-Ulrich Viol

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Table of contents
0 Introductory remarks 1
1 Touristic representations 3
1.1 Tourist 'Information'3
1.2 Visual images 6
1.3 Theoretical background 6
1.4 Applying Barthes to "The Romance of Oxford"13
1.5 Further ways of reading the postcards 21
1.6 Background Information: Oxford facts and figures 22
1.7 Visual images revisited: Adding to the theoretical context 25
1.8 Introducing a special attraction: "The Oxford Story"30
2'Classic' representations 35
2.1 A key classic and its continuing popularity 35
2.2 Oxford in contemporary populär culture 46
2.3 Theoretical background: Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myt...
2.4 A traditional detective novel as a case study 65
2.5 Naturalisation and depoliticisation in myth 74
2.6 The values transported by the Oxford classics 88
3 Dissenting and de-centring representations of Oxford 97
3.1 Oxford and ethnicity 98
Migration and postcolonialism 98
Oxford and the Empire (writing back)101
Some kinds of black: Oxford, identity, race, and ethnicity 118
Identity 124
Race, and old and new ethnicities 129
3.2 Theoretical background: Post-structuralism (and the endless deferral of t...
Post-structuralism and the openness of the text 143
City of many centres or city of no centre? Postcolonial Oxford and post-s...
3.3 Oxford: A class of its own?158
Class in Britain 161
Entering and leaving Oxford: The secret of social success?163
Class: Economic, social, and cultural capital; or, Pierre Bourdieu at Oxfor...
Putting class into Oxford mythology 177
3.4 Oxford and gender 185
Women in Oxford: Some facts and figures 185
Sex, gender, and sexuality: The theory 187
Gendered representations of Oxford: A feminine or feminist rewriting 197
Gendered representations of Oxford: A deconstructionist re-reading 201
Queering Arnold 205
3.5 Mental maps of the city 207
Maps of Oxford 212
Oxford's cultural geographies: Revisiting the cities of Waugh, Adebayo, and ...
Whose Oxford? Two approaches to developing the city 218
4 Self-(re)presentations of the contemporary university world 225
4.1 Encoding and decoding Oxford mythology 225
4.2 Facts and figures about Oxford students in the 21 st Century 246
4.3 Official seif-presentations of the University of Oxford 254
4.4 Alternative presentations of the university and its Colleges by Oxford ...
4.5 The construction and representation of a group identity 292
5 Concluding remarks 301
6 Suggestions for further study 305
Index of key terms, texts, and thinkers 309
Acknowledgements 311
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Index of key terms, texts, and thinkers
Excerpts from primary and theoretical texts are indicated by italics.
AAdebayo, Diran 118 -Some Kind of Black 118-126, 119-120, 122-123, 139-140, 147, 216-...
Adorno, Theodor W. 226, 234
Agard, John 101 -"Listen Mr Oxford don" 102, 104-105, 110-111, 139-140
Althusser, Louis 227-228 -ideology 227-228, 232, 235, 237-238
Arnold, Matthew 77, 83, 87-88 -culture 77 -"Preface", Essays in Criticism 78, 79-81, ...
BBarthes, Roland 6, 25
- code 8, 11, 12 -coded iconic message 11, 13, 267, 301
-connotation, denotation 8, 9-12, 13
- depoliticisation 74-75
- linguistic message 8-10, 13, 301
- myth 25-32, 74-75, 80, 85, 88 -"Myth Today" 25-28, 74
- naturalisation 12, 28-29, 33, 74-75, 80-81, 88, 227, 266-268, 270-275 -non-coded ic...
Berger, John 21
- Ways ofSeeing 21, 22
Bourdieu, Pierre 169 -class 169, 173, 175-177 -cultural capital 169-171, 173-175, 182...
- Distinction 169, 173-175 -economic capital 169, 171, 173-175, 182, 223 -educational...
Butler, Judith 188-189, 192
CCerteau, Michel de 211 -place/space 211, 216
Chaudhuri, Amit 148 -Afternoon Raag 148-149, 150-151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156-157, 21...
class 133, 158-184, 210, 244, 250, 302
cultural semiotics 56, 235
DDerrida, Jacques 141-142
differance 134, 140-143, 147, 152, 155 -"Living On.Borderlines" 143-145, 144 -signifi...
EEhrenreich, Rosa 197
- A Garden of Paper Flowers 197-198, 198-200, 200-201, 207, 289
ethnicity 129-140, 223, 249, 251, 301-302
FFiske, John 245
- cultural populism 245
Foucault, Michel 189
Frankfurt School 226, 234
Fraser, Antonia 49 -Oxford Blood 49-50, 49-52, 76, 81, 87
GGay, Paul du 295
- circuit of culture 295-301, 296
gender 185-205, 223, 302
Gramsci, Antonio 227
- hegemony 228
HHall, Stuart 129, 226 - circuit of culture 295-301, 296
- culturalism 226-227, 229, 239
-"Encoding/Decoding" 227, 229-232, 230-231, 233-234, 234-239, 301 - ethnicity 129-138...
- politics of representation 133-136, 139-140, 223
- politics of resistance 129-133, 138-140, 223 - reading, dominant-hegemonic 233-234,...
- reading, negotiated 233-234, 238, 265, 299
- reading, oppositional 233-234, 238-239, 265, 299
- trans-coding 130-131, 135
Iidentity 124-129, 147, 293-299, 301-302
KKosofsky-Sedgwick, Eve 189-190
LLacan, Jacques 141
Levi-Strauss, Claude 54-55, 141 -bündle of relations 57-58, 60-65, 68-69, 71-73, 76, ...
-myth 56-65, 68-73, 301 -mytheme 56, 58-59, 61-65, 68, 71-73, 75, 85, 154-155 -"The S...
MMacNeice, Louis 177 -" Autumn Journal" 178 , 179, 183-184
Morley, David 227, 238
NNew Cultural Geography 119, 207-223, 268, 302
PParker, Imogen 46 -What Became of Us 46-49, 47 , 61-62, 72, 73
Patmore, Coventry 203 -"Angel in the House" 203-204, 204
postcolonialism 98-101, 110-11, 115-116, 140, 157
post-structuralism 110-111, 125-141-145, 147, 152, 154, 222-223, 302
Qqueer theory 190-191, 205-206, 302
Rrace 99, 129, 132-134, 136-137, 139, 223
Ruskin, John 204
- "Of Queens' Gardens" 205
SSaussure, Ferdinand de 6, 55
syntagmatic/paradigmatic axis 55-56, 58, 141-143
sign, signifier, signified 6, 25-26, 55-56, 141-142
Sayers, Dorothy 65 -Gaudy Night 65-73, 66-67, 75-76, 86
sex 187-192, 223
sexuality 189-191, 205-206, 223, 244
structuralism 55-57, 141-142
WWaugh, Evelyn 37
-Brideshead Revisited 37-46, 38, 40, 42-43, 48, 61-64, 216-217, 240-245
Williams, Raymond 179-180 -culture 179-180 -Second Generation 180-181, 184
Woodward, Kathryn 126 -identity 126-129
-Identity and Difference 126-127 -representation 126-128
ZZephaniah, Benjamin 138 -"What Am I Going on about?"138
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