Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415914543 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 286 str.

Marjorie Garber;Paul B. Franklin;Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Opis

This volume of presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities. It brings together such leading figures as Sacvan Bercovitch and Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah and Barbara Johnson, Seyla Benhabib and Norman Bryson, Martha Minow and Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Marjorie Garber and Susan Suleiman. It explores such questions as: What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literary and other fields engaged in cultural work have in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? and What can cultural studies tell us about culture

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Introduction; Part 1 What Is Culture? What Are Cultures?; Chapter 1 The Intellectual Challenge of Multiculturalism and Teaching the Canon, Seyla Benhabib; Chapter 2 What Is Culture? Does It Matter?, Mary Margaret Steedly; Chapter 3 Custody Battles, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 4 Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah; Chapter 5 Productive Discomfort, Michael Herzfeld; Part 2 National Identities, Global Identities; Chapter 6 Planet Rap, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Chapter 7 Violence and Interpretation, Beatrice Hanssen; Chapter 8 OUR AmeRíca, Doris Sommer; Chapter 9 Are We Post-American Studies?, Lawrence Buell; Part 3 National Literatures in a Global World?; Chapter 10 Don Quixoteand the National Citizenship of Masterpieces, Mary Malcolm Gaylord; Chapter 11 Russian Literature, William Mills Todd III; Chapter 12 Shrunk to an Interloper, Judith Ryan; Chapter 13 National Literatures in a Global World?— Sometimes—Maybe, Stephen Owen; Part 4 One Poem, Three Readers; Chapter 14 Reading a Poem, Helen Vendler; Chapter 15 Ode on a Public Thing, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 16 Enlistment and Refusal, Meredith L. McGill; Part 5 Textual Editing; Chapter 17 Textual Deviance, Jeffrey Masten; Chapter 18 Medieval Irish Manuscript Culture, Patrick K. Ford; Chapter 19 Editing Homer, Rethinking the Bard, Gregory Nagy; Part 6 Reading Visual Images; Chapter 20 Morimura’s Olympia[Norman Bryson; Chapter 21 Reading Invisibility, Jann Matlock; Chapter 22 “Agency”, Irene J. Winter; Part 7 Law and Literature; Chapter 23 Law’s Literature, David Kennedy; Chapter 24 The Made-Up and the Made-Real, Elaine Scarry; Chapter 25 Narrative Battles in the Courtroom, Laura Hanft Korobkin; Chapter 26 Telling Stories, Telling Law, Martha Minow; Part 8 The Literary and the Autobiographical; Chapter 27 A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies, Sacvan Bercovitch; Chapter 28 Criticism and the Autobiographical Voice, Susan Rubin Suleiman; Chapter 29 Unsettling Homecoming, Svetlana Boym;

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Marjorie Garber is Professor of English and Director for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard. She is the author of Vested Interests and with Rebecca L. Walkowitz co-editor of Media Spectacles and Secret Agents, published by Routledge; her latest book is Vice Versa. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at Harvard. Paul B. Franklin is a doctoral candidate in fine arts at Harvard.