JOHN FISKE VE POPÜLER KÜLTÜR: MARGARET TYLER’IN “OKUYUCUYA MEKTUP”UNUN ELEŞTİREL BİR OKUMASI
JOHN FISKE AND POPULAR CULTURE: A CRITICAL READING OF MARGARET TYLER’S “EPISTLE TO THE READER”

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how Margaret Tyler overcomes literary inferiority in the “Epistle to the Reader” that precedes her translation The Mirrour of Princely Deeds and Knighthood. Tyler, as a woman and an author, is in a secondary position in the patriarchal Elizabethan society and print culture. Notwithstanding her disadvantaged status, she circumvents it through various tactics, and she defends both her act and women’s right to write. Tyler does not overtly challenge the assumptions prevalent in print culture but manipulates them to her own end. The fact that she employs several strategies to earn a place in the system renders it possible to evaluate the preface within the framework of John Fiske’s popular culture theory. As is evident from the “Epistle,” Tyler resists the dominant culture, and she produces her oppositional stance out of the resources of the dominant. Thus, Tyler’s preface functions as an element of popular culture.

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