Description
Book SynopsisThis volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being more specific than either. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of the critic''s situatedness in the presentthe social and cultural present from which we look, and look back, at objects that are already of the past, objects that we take to define our present culture. Thus it can be summarized by the phrase cultural memory in the present. Far from being indifferent to history, cultural analysis is devoted to understanding the past as part of the present, as what we have around us.
The essays gathered here represent the current state of an emerging field of inquiry. At the same time, they suggest to the larger academic world what cultural analysis can and should do, or be, as an interdisciplinary practice. The challenge for this volume is to counter the common assumption
Table of Contents
Contents Bal Mieke Lam Janneke PART I. Keller Evelyn Fox Salomon Nanette Elaesser Thomas Pollock Griselda Zemel Carol Bann Stephen PART II. Geyer-Ryan Helga van Alphen Ernst Ankersmit Frank R. Exum J. Cheryl Hoving Isabel Zielinski Siegfried PART III. Fabian Johannes Dupre Louis de Boer Theo Neubauer John Cook Jon Germano William P. Culler Jonathan
