Myth, Imitation and 'Postfiguration'. Categories of Description of Contemporary Popular Culture

• Authors: Fulinska A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses popular culture in the context of two terms: prefiguration and postfiguration, showing that the latter is the proper tool to describe flow of topics and images in popular literature and other fields, e.g. film or music. The authoress discusses popular culture as looking at the same time forward - in search of new elements to capture the audience - and back - reflecting its own genres, formulas and themes. The term postfiguration is proposed as a unifying category for these two, apparently contradictory tendencies.

Keywords

EN

AUDIENCE; GENRE.; POPULAR CULTURE; POSTFIGURATION; PREFIGURATION

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 288-296
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fulinska A.

• A. Fulinska, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, Katedra Antropologii Literatury i Badan Kulturowych, ul. Grodzka 54, 31-044 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04668921