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Subject(s)

• Critical theory [Browse]
• Humanities [Browse]

Related name

• Mansfield, Nicholas [Browse]

Related work(s)

Fuery, Patrick, 1957- Cultural studies and the new humanities. [Browse]

Summary note

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory explores questions of culture, representation, gender, power, sexuality, and the postmodern. What is culture? And why is it divided into high, middle, and popular? What is a text, and how does it work in the world? What issues fuel contemporary cultural politics? What is the subject, and why has it become such a burning issue in cultural studies? This book thoroughly revises and updates Cultural Studies and the New Humanities: Concepts and Controversies. Drawing on the strengths of the earlier edition, it provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the new millennium, providing historical background, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of influential thinkers. New chapters have been added on the rise of visual cultures and the fierce contemporary debate between identity politics and queer theory. Students at all levels will find this to be an accessible and thought-provoking text. - Back cover.

Notes

Previous ed. entitled: Cultural studies and the new humanities : concepts and controversies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction
• Part one : The humanities after humanism. Introduction
• Post-humanism
• The text, culture, and the unconscious : life without the canon
• Part two : From interpretation to interaction. Introduction
• The readerly question : phenomenology, semiotics, and the act of reading
• Deconstruction, the death of the author, and intertextuality
• Seduced by the text : theories of the gaze
• Visual cultures
• Part three : Contextuality. Introduction
• Contextuality : postmodernism
• Contextuality : feminism and the fluidity of noir
• Contextuality : the cultural politics of postmodernism
• Part four : Texts and subjects. Introduction
• The edge of the mirror : the subject and the other
• Making and unmaking the subject
• Deconstructing sexuality
• Conclusion
• Glossary.

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ISBN

0195512944 (pbk.)

OCLC

45151382

RCP

H - S

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