CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Article Title

Cultural Studies and Cultural Text Analysis

Authors

Urpo Kovala, University of Jyväskylä

Abstract

In his article, "Cultural Studies and Cultural Text Analysis," Urpo Kovala discusses the role of textual analysis in cultural studies. He begins with a sketch of different conceptions of textual analysis within cultural studies by pointing to differences in the concepts of text and context themselves. Next, Kovala explores the reasons for including textual analysis as a category and method in cultural studies and in humanities and social sciences scholarship generally. Finally, Kovala sketches briefly a model for the cultural analysis of text where his main point is that the argument about the incompatibility of cultural studies and textual analysis is untenable today. Instead, what is needed now is a heterological, multi-level, and perspectival notion of both text and context.

Recommended Citation

Kovala, Urpo. "Cultural Studies and Cultural Text Analysis." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.4 (2002): <http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1169>

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