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Street smarts and critical theory : listening to the vernacular /

Thomas McLaughlin argues that critical theory - raising serious, sustained questions about cultural practice and ideology - is practiced not only by an academic elite but also by savvy viewers of sitcoms and tv news, by Elvis fans and Trekkies, by labor organizers and school teachers, by the average...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McLaughlin, Thomas, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1996.
Series:Wisconsin project on American writers.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • theory outside the academy: street smarts and critical theory
  • Cultural theory and social activism in the southern Christian antipornography movement
  • Criticism in the zines: vernacular theory and popular culture
  • Stories of the new age: narrative, healing, and transformation
  • The cunning of the hand, the weakness of the heart: theoretical work in the advertising profession
  • The teachers meet the experts: vernacular theory in the whole language movement
  • Pedagogy and vernacular theory.