Cultural studies and the new humanities : concepts and controversies

Cultural studies and the new humanities : concepts and controversies /

The contemporary humanities -- from "intertextuality" to "queer theory"--Are a minefield of new theories and controversies. This book explores some of the new ways of thinking about the traditional arts and human sciences, providing historical background, defining key terms, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuery, Patrick, 1957-
Other Authors: Mansfield, Nick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Critical theory.
Humanities.
Civilization, Modern.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Humanities
Théorie critique.
Sciences humaines.
Civilisation moderne et contemporaine.
Culture > Étude et enseignement.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
humanities.
Geisteswissenschaften
Wissenschaftstheorie
Culturele studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • -- Part I. The Humanities After Humanism. 1. Post-Humanism
  • - 2. The Text, Culture and The Unconscious: Life Without the Cannon
  • -- Part II. From Interpretation to Interaction . 1. The Readerly Question: Phenomenology, Semiotics and the Act of Reading
  • - 2. The Death of the Author and Intertextuality
  • - 3. Seduced by the Text: Theories of the Gaze
  • - 4. The Skin of the Text: The Body and Horror
  • -- Part III. Contextuality . 1. Contextuality: From Realism to Modernism
  • - 2. Contextuality: Feminism and the Fluidity of Noir
  • - 3. Contextuality: Postmodernism
  • -- Part IV. Texts and Subjects . 1. The Edge of the Mirror: The Subject and the Other
  • - 2. Making and Un-Making the Subject
  • - 3. Sexuality: Obscured Objects of Desire
  • -- Conclusion.

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