The aesthetics of cultural studies / edited by Michael Bérubé. - Malden, MA : Blackwell, c2005. - viii, 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The role of aesthetics in cultural studies - 2. On literature in cultural studies - 3. Excessive practices: Aesthetics, Erotica, and cultural studies - 4. The burden of culture - 5. Cultural studies and questions of pleasure and value - 6. "I give it a 94. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it": Valuing popular music - 7. Cultural studies and the new populism - 8. Beauty on my mind: Reading literature in an age of cultural studies - 9. Inventing culture (behind the garage door) - 10. The cringe factor.

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Aesthetics.
Culture.

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