Abstract
Richard Hoggart's Uses of Literacy established the basic paradigm for the interdisciplinary nature of the cultural studies, and its essential principle is to start from the "living culture" of social life, to study literary texts, especially the texts of popular culture rather than to study the texts of "classic literary works" determined by some experts and scholars, and to find how the texts influence and shape the everyday life of people (especially the working class). This purpose of cultural studies has entailed its genetic relationship with literature, popular culture and sociology, and in essence constituted a new way of literary studies quite different from the orthodox and classic way of literary studies. This way of literary studies has taken on its distinctive colors of class, politics, gender and ideology.
First Page
154
Last Page
162
Recommended Citation
Yan, Jia. 2015. "How to Understand the Interdisciplinary of Cultural Studies: Taking Hoggart's Uses of Literacy as an Example." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (2): pp.154-162. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss2/5
