Bøger af John 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.

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.

On its publication in 1999, Accounting for Tastes was the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever. It is a book that makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.