"culture" and the Problem of the Disciplines

Neuausgabe 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-11243-7
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Critical Theory Institute Book

What is the university's role in the production of cultural ideals? With increasingly interdisciplinary approaches being employed in scholarship, can we speak of discrete fields of study?

The results of a collaborative research project by the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine, this collection explores the role that scholars and universities play in shaping and defining culture, and how teaching and research institutions are changing in response to international movements and social forces. Investigating the way "high" culture (literature, liberal education) and popular culture (fashion, film) are dealt with in the classroom, these essays show that the "culture wars" of the 1980s and '90s are by no means over; they have simply warped into new, less visible struggles for control of educational funding, curricula, academic "standards," and pedagogical authority.

The essays in this volume range widely. Sacvan Bercovitch defends the literary ideal of culture through his examination of Faulkner's Light in August; Linda Williams explores visual culture through Hitchcock's Psycho; and Leslie Rabine considers the intersections of fashion, race, and gender. J. Hillis Miller details how "cultural studies" might positively change the structure of the university, and Mark Poster challenges historians to develop methods of representing history that are adequate to the complexity of lived experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowe, John Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, by John Carlos Rowe2. Foundations of Diversity: Thinking the University in a Time of Multiculturalism, by David Lloyd3. Literary and Cultural Studies in the Transnational University, by J. Hillis Miller4. The Function of the Literary in a Time of Cultural Studies, by Sacvan Bercovitch5. Discipline and Distraction: Psycho, Visual Culture, and Postmodern Cinema, by Linda Williams6. Fashion and the Racial Construction of Gender, by Linda Williams7. Accenting Hybridity: Postcolonial Cultural Studies, a Boasian Anthropologist, and I, by James A. Boon8. Colonialism, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Criticism: The Problem of Interiorization in the work of Albert Memmi, by Suzanne Gearhart9. Textual Agents: History at "The End of History", by Mark Poster

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN CARLOS ROWE is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a founding member of the Critical Theory Institute.