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Unit 30: Umberto Eco's 'Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage’ (Textual Analysis)

30.4 Key-Words Notes

1. Cultural materialism : Cultural materialism may be considered as the British version of new
historicism. Both schools of criticism are characterized by newly
theorized and politicized readings of history and literary texts. While
new historicism is particularly cncerned with the textuality of history,
however, cultural materialism, influenced by Raymond Williams’s
version of Marxist criticism, focuses on the material conditions of the
production and reception of literary texts. Cultural materialists are
thus concerned to expose the ideological and political dimensions of
such texts.

30.5 Review Questions

1. Discuss Casablanca as a cult movie.
2. Write a short note on Casablanca.
3. Explain the textual analysis of Casablanca.
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(a) (ii)(d) (iii)(a)

30.6 Further Readings

1. Hutcheon, Linda A poetics of postmodernism, London: Routledge, 1988.
2. Kennedy, X.J., Dana Gioia, Mark Bauerlein, Handbook of Literary Terms:
Literature, Language, Theory, 1st edition, New Delhi: Pearson, 2007.
3. Lodge, David (ed.) Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, London: Longman,
1972.
4. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh (eds.) A Modern Literary Theory: A Reader, 3rd
edition, London: Arnold, 1999.
5. Sethuraman, V.S. and Ramaswamy (eds.) The English Critical Tradition, Volume
II, New Delhi, Macmillan, 1977.
6. Seturaman, V.S. (ed.) Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology, New Delhi:
Macmillan, 2008.

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