Comparative cultural studies
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Comparative Cultural Studies is a field of scholarship where selected tenets of the discipline of comparative literature are merged with selected tenets of the field of cultural studies meaning that the study of culture and culture products -- including but not restricted to literature, communication, media, art, etc. -- is performed in a contextual and relational construction and with a plurality of methods and approaches, inter-disciplinarity, and, if and when required, including team work. In comparative cultural studies it is the processes of communicative action(s) in culture and the how of these processes that constitute the main objectives of research and study. However, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of study. In comparative cultural studies, ideally, the framework of and methodologies available in the contextual (e.g., systemic and empirical study of culture) are favored. It remains to further research to elaborate and to exemplify the points introduced above.
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- Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998;
- Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2003;
- Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. "From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative Cultural Studies."
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>;
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>
- Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> & <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>.
