Travelling concepts in the humanities: a rough guide
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Main Author: Bal, Mieke 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2002]
Series:Green College thematic lecture series
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Online Access:DE-Y7
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction ---- 1. Concept --- 2. Image --- 3. Mise-en-scène --- 4. Framing --- 5. Performance and performativity --- 6. Tradition --- 7. Intention --- 8. Critical intimacy
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts. Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Concepts are not grids to put over an object. The counterpart of any given concept is the cultural text or work or 'thing' that constitutes the object of analysis. No concept is meaningful for cultural analysis unless it helps us to understand the object better on its own terms. -- Description from http://www.utppublishing.com (April 20, 2012)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 369 pages)
ISBN:9781442682764
1442682760

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