The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis - Hardcover

Bal, Mieke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826406572 ISBN 13: 9780826406576

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1994

Synopsis

What is the point of bringing reflexive discourse called theory to bear on such diverse subjects as the Statue of Liberty, the dTcor of Freud's study, a fifteenth-century triptych and contemporary science, on Kant and postmodern literature, Indian traditions and the voice of a soprano? The Point of Theory works to reintegrate theory and theorizing into a culture disturbed by "anti-theorism" and political "in-correctness." In this book, twenty-two cultural theorists seek to make the workings of culture understandable.

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About the Author

Mieke Bal is the author of Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, and many other books. She is Professor of the Theory of Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and has also been affiliated with Columbia University, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University.Inge E. Boer is Associate Professor of Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826406572
• ISBN 13: 9780826406576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Boer Inge E.