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"Derby day (opening day), Regatta (most famous boat competition in England), Cowes (Isle of Wight), the 12^,h of August (opening of the haunting season, culture ofhunting), a cup finał, the dart board, 19* century Gothic churches, Elgar (musie).

The rangę is enormous - musie, church, architecture to something we may hesitate about -horse racing, etc.

To conclude - we have to face - what is part of culture is part of our lived religion - the way in which we live

Everything that constitutes our style of living - all we use in activities, the way we live, experience & organize our live

Jndependently - of what is high (opera)/low (soap opera) culture - everything is culture - to put it quite crudely - the way we live

Question of value emerges - if culture involves everything... is it valuable Culture and value go together - \ts crucial - how we define values?

Notion of history and change - transformation/evolution

Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory. 1986

"Value is a transitive term: it means whatever is valued by certain people in specific situations according to particular criteria and in the light of given purpose. It is thus quite possible that given a deep enough transformation of our history, we may in the futurę produce a society which is unable to get anything at all out of Shakespeare. His works might seem desperately alien, fuli of styles of thought and feeling which such a society found limited or irrelevant. In such a situation, Shakespeare would be no morę yaluable than much of present-day graffiti."

The debate centers upon two things -

o value as something so important, so central that is solid, static, doesn't change; first association - \ts a standard, it doesn't change throughout years (automatic)

o Eagleton argues: a transitive term - belongs to the domain of change, moves, is dynamie, not defined once and for all

Values are central & important but not changeable vs