EADING SOCIETY AND CULTURE THROUGH LITERARY TEXT: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH IN LITERARY CRITICISM  

Oleh:

Hidayat, Rahmad

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013
Topik: Society; literary text; cultural studies; and literary criticism
Fulltext: 12 Reading Society.pdf (344.3KB)

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Studying literature is studying about human, society and its culture as a whole. Through the texts of literature, the representation of society and its culture can be interpreted and investigated deeper by elaborating literary texts to be analyzed in the form of academic writing. The task nowadays, however, is not easy since there have been many types of ‘literary’ texts found in (or coming to) Indonesia, which may be considered as popular literature, such as Meyer’s Twilight and Harry Potter. In classroom practices, these popular texts are often analyzed using traditional intrinsic approach such as the characterization and plot. In order to develop or gain new insights from these contemporary literature, we need to look beyond what is written by examining also what ideology it attempts to deliver. This article, therefore, aims to examine the significance of using cultural studies as one of the contemporary approaches in studying literature. The paper explores the importance and advantage of using cultural studies as one of the tools in interpreting literature. The use of cultural studies approach offers not only an interesting way of reading literary works but also opens many perspectives and values of literary works as the representation of human and soci ety and its culture which are revealed from literary works.

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