Moby Dick

Table of contents Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, Scrivener” (1853) and Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” (1924) are short stories that deal with the complexities of man in the social setting. Melville is most well known for his novel Moby Dick while Kafka was virtually unknown during his lifetime and has no published novels but has since […]

Dick Hebdige’s work Subculture: The Meaning of Style has had a great impact within the area of cultural studies as it manages to take the preceding theories of subculture one step further, and to pinpoint the differences between culture and subculture as well as to decipher the “the hidden messages inscribed on the glossy surfaces […]