Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415914558 ISBN 13: 9780415914550

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume of new work presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. It brings together such leading figures as Sacvan Bercovitch and Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah and Barbara Johnson, Seyla Benhabib and Norman Bryson, Martha Minow and Henry Louis Gates,Jr, Marjorie Garber and Susan Suleiman and explores such questions as: What is culture ? What are cultures ? Are literary texts and cultural texts different ? What do literary and other fields engaged in cultural work have in common ? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines ? What can cultural studies tell us about culture ?

About the Author:

Marjorie Garber is Professor of English and Director for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard. She is the author of Vested Interests and with Rebecca L. Walkowitz co-editor of Media Spectacles and Secret Agents, published by Routledge; her latest book is Vice Versa. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at Harvard. Paul B. Franklin is a doctoral candidate in fine arts at Harvard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415914558
• ISBN 13: 9780415914550
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Garber Marjorie