4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
The literary and cultural historical method that reads literary texts not as autonomous aesthetic objects but as participants in the power relations and cultural practices of their historical moment.
Jamaican-British cultural theorist who founded British Cultural Studies and developed the encoding/decoding model of media communication.
A 2016 book by James Gleick tracing the cultural history of time travel from H. G. Wells to the digital present.
Postmodernism was a cultural and intellectual movement that rejected grand narratives and universal truths, instead embracing diversity, complexity, and fragmentation.