Interpreting Cultures: Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781403971289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 340 str.

Jonathan Hart

Opis

This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study combines theoretical and critical contexts for close readings in culture through discussions of literature, philosophy, history, psychology and visual arts by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond.

Spis treści

Introduction Recognitions Readings: History and Poetics Readings: Writers, Images and Poets Conclusion

O autorze

Jonathan Hart is a poet, critic, historian, and author of Theater and World, Breath and Dust, Representing the New World, Empires and Colonies, Musing, Dreamwork, From Shakespeare to Obama. He has held appointments and visiting appointments at Toronto, Cambridge, Alberta, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Princeton, Harvard and elsewhere. His work has been translated into many languages.