Books by John (Professor of English Frow

Character and Person explores the category of fictional character, one of the most widely used and least adequately theorized concepts in literary studies, cultural studies, and everyday usage. It sets fictional character in relation to the concept of person and tries to examine how each of these terms is constructed across different cultures.

This major critique on the important new discipline of cultural studies offers readings of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau. The author argues for a new orientation for cultural studies starting from a recognition of the complexity of the category of culture.

Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, on tourism, on gift exchange and commodity exchange, and on the social organization of memory it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.