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121. A.Sinfield, Literature, politics and culture in postwar Britain (Oxford, Basil
Blackwell, 1989), pp. 26–7, 31, 35.
122. C.Hampton, The ideology of the text (Milton Keynes, Open University Press,
1990); A. Sinfield, Faultlines: cultural materialism and the politics of dissident
reading (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992).
123. R.Collins et al., Introduction, in Media, culture and society: a critical reader,
eds. R.Collins et al. (London, Sage, 1986), p. 4.
124. Ibid., pp. 4–5.
125. Turner, British cultural studies, pp. 194–5.
126. R.Williams, Communications (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1962); R.Williams,
Television: technology and cultural form (Glasgow, Fontana, 1974).

Chapter 4

1. D.Robey, Introduction, in Structuralism: an introduction, ed. D.Robey (Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 1–2.
2. Comte subscribed to a radically positivistic notion of science. Indeed, the term
“positivism” derives from his “positive philosophy”. And, unlike the utilitarians,
he conceived this science in, equally radical, holistic terms, cf. R.Aron, Main
currents in sociological thought, vol. I, tr. R.Howard & H.Weaver (London,
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965), ch. 2.
3. E.Durkheim, The rules of sociological method, tr. S.A.Solovay & J.H.Mueller
(New York, Free Press, 1964), p. 3.
4. E.Durkheim, The elementary forms of the religious life, tr. J.W.Swain (London,
George Allen & Unwin, 1976), p. 433.
5. Ibid., pp. 423–4.
6. Ibid., p. 40.
7. Ibid., p. 47.
8. F.de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, tr. W.Baskin (Glasgow, Fontana,
1974), p. 14.
9. Ibid., p. 67.
10. Ibid., p. 66.
11. Ibid., p. 120.
12. Ibid., p. 87.
13. Thus Durkheim: “we cannot arrive at an understanding of the most recent religions
except by following the manner in which they have been progressively composed
in history”—Durkheim, Elementary forms, p. 3.
14. Saussure, Course, p. 16.
15. C.Lévi-Strauss, Structural anthropology, tr. C.Jacobson & B.Grundfest Schoepf
(Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972).
16. cf. E.Durkheim, The division of labor in society, tr. G.Simpson (New York, Free
Press, 1964), bk. 2, ch. 2.
17. T.Todorov, Théorie de la liltérature: textes des formalistes russes (Paris, Editions
du Seuil, 1965).
18. V.Shklovsky, Art as technique, tr. L.Lemon & M.Reis, in Russian formalist criticism:
four essays, eds. L.Lemon & M.Reis (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press,
1965), p. 12.
19. R.Jakobson, Closing statement: linguistics and poetics, in Style in language, ed.
T.A. Sebeok (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1960), pp. 356–7.

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