الفهرس 
Meaning of Cultural Studies
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Abstract
This study aims at analyzing six of George Orwell’s novels[Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four] in light of cultural studies. The first chapter sheds light on the domain of cultural studies as a multi-disciplinary field of inquiry, its origins, development and major characteristics. Moreover, it presents the different models of cultural studies starting firstly from the cultural Marxist models of cultural studies in the s1930 to the culture a list model in the late s and 1950s,the structura list model in the 1970s, the structuta list Marxist model and the Marxian neo-Gramscian model in the late 1970 s and 1980 s and finally the post-structuralist and post-modernist models in the
1970 s. The first chapter then analyzes how Orwell “produced work similar in some way to contemporary cultural studies but in different institutional settings and often with relatively little acknowledgment” (During,).For instance, Orwell shares the cultural critics’ interest in the interrelation between politics and power on the one hand and the field of literature on the other; Orwell also shares the same target of changing the world through his writings. The concept of “politics” for Orwell is not limited to its sphere of governmental processes; rather, it
extends to cover any form of “power” that is exerted by either imperialism, capitalism, totalitarianism or by the power of the church over its subjects. The second chapter analyzes Orwell’s first three novels—Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying. The third chapter examines Orwell’s satirical novels—Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Every novel is studied within its specific socio-political context. Moreover, throughout the novels, the question of the agency of social subjects is highlighted as opposed to the impotence of social subjects regarding their cultural milieu. In the field of cultural studies, such culturalists as Ernst Bloch, Antonio Gramsci, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and E.P Thompson have, in different ways, advocated the agency of social subjects as opposed to Althusser’s Marxist structur alist premise of the impotence of social subjects which is also shared by Foucault’s post-structuralist view.