Cultural Studies

Smith, Paul M.

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“…These references are mostly limited to Eco's cultural analyses, probably the most outdated area of his lifelong research, 107 neglecting the potential usefulness of his semiotic research for this field of studies whose greatest limit is often found in its lack of solid theoretical groundings. 108 This partial lack of consideration seems due to two main reasons. First, the degree of abstraction that semiotics implies and the resulting near-total absence of the issue of subjectivity, individuality, and identity, which is pivotal in contemporary Cultural Studies.…”

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Eco and Gramsci: Unexplored Connections in Cultural Studies

Ruggieri

2021

Italian Studies

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Although its relevance is widely recognised, the contribution of Umberto Eco's semiotic theory and cultural analyses to the field of Cultural Studies has yet to be studied extensively. This article claims that Eco's appropriation of the legacy of Antonio Gramsci, forerunner of Cultural Studies, plays a key role in this contribution. The connections between Eco and Gramsci have gone almost unexplored despite them being two key figures in the development of Italian critical theory. These connections can be found in their shared interests in mass culture and the role of the intellectual in mass society. This article highlights how, in his work of the 1960s and 1970s, Eco de-ideologises Gramsci and substantiates his cultural analyses through the methodologies of structuralism and interpretative semiotics.

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Eco and Gramsci: Unexplored Connections in Cultural Studies

Ruggieri

2021

Italian Studies

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Cultural Studies

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