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11%OFFMieke Bal - Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Green College Lecture Series) - 9780802084101 - V9780802084101
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Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Green College Lecture Series)

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Description for Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Green College Lecture Series) Paperback. Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities ? necessary, exciting, serious ? must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Series: Green College Lecture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: GT; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.

Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts.

Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Concepts are not grids to put ... Read more

Bal offers the reader a sustained theoretical reflection on how to 'do' cultural analysis through a tentative practice of doing just that. This offers a concrete practice to theoretical constructs, and allows the proposed method more accessibility.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Green College Lecture Series
Condition
New
Weight
604g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802084101
SKU
V9780802084101
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Ref
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About Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal is an award-winning cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and professor of cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

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