I look at how thinkers over the centuries have viewed so-called popular or lightweight literature.
Tag Archives: Frankfurt School
Does Lightweight Lit Do Damage?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Dunciad, Feminism, Frederick Engels, Herbert Marcuse, Jaws, John Dryden, Karl Marx, lightweight literature, Lovers' Vows, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Percy Shelley, Persuasion, Peter Benchley, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Terry Eagleton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wayne Booth Comments closed
How Capitalism Threatens Art
The Frankfurt School studied how culture gets subsumed by capitalism. We need to start reading Adorno and Benjamin again.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Capitalism, Fredric Jameson, Marxism, Neo-Marxism, popular culture, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin Comments closed
