CiNii Books - Field work : sites in literary and cultural studies

What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, fresh from the dig, presents a timely account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. Field Work 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, as well as scholars in areas as diverse as legal studies and Renaissance literature. From a rich variety of perspectives, these scholars excavate and explore foundational questions in their fields. Contributors: K. Anthony Appiah, Seyla Benhabib, Sacvan Bercovitch, Svetlana Boym, Norman Bryson, Lawrence Buell, Patrick Ford, Paul B. Franklin, Marjorie Garber, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Mary Gaylord, Beatrice Hanssen, Barbara Johnson, David Kennedy, Joseph Koener, Laura Korobkin, Meredith McGill, Jeffrey Masten, Jann Matlock, Martha Minow, Gregory Nagy, Stephen Owen, Judith Ryan, Elaine Scarry, Doris Sommer, Mary Steedly, Susan Suleiman, William Todd, Helen Vendler, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Irene Winter

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Introduction
Part 1 What Is Culture? What Are Cultures?
Chapter 1 The Intellectual Challenge of Multiculturalism and Teaching the Canon, Seyla Benhabib
Chapter 2 What Is Culture? Does It Matter?, Mary Margaret Steedly
Chapter 3 Custody Battles, Marjorie Garber
Chapter 4 Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Chapter 5 Productive Discomfort, Michael Herzfeld
Part 2 National Identities, Global Identities
Chapter 6 Planet Rap, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Chapter 7 Violence and Interpretation, Beatrice Hanssen
Chapter 8 OUR AmeRica, Doris Sommer
Chapter 9 Are We Post-American Studies?, Lawrence Buell
Part 3 National Literatures in a Global World?
Chapter 10 Don Quixoteand the National Citizenship of Masterpieces, Mary Malcolm Gaylord
Chapter 11 Russian Literature, William Mills Todd III
Chapter 12 Shrunk to an Interloper, Judith Ryan
Chapter 13 National Literatures in a Global World?- Sometimes-Maybe, Stephen Owen
Part 4 One Poem, Three Readers
Chapter 14 Reading a Poem, Helen Vendler
Chapter 15 Ode on a Public Thing, Barbara Johnson
Chapter 16 Enlistment and Refusal, Meredith L. McGill
Part 5 Textual Editing
Chapter 17 Textual Deviance, Jeffrey Masten
Chapter 18 Medieval Irish Manuscript Culture, Patrick K. Ford
Chapter 19 Editing Homer, Rethinking the Bard, Gregory Nagy
Part 6 Reading Visual Images
Chapter 20 Morimura's Olympia[Norman Bryson
Chapter 21 Reading Invisibility, Jann Matlock
Chapter 22 "Agency", Irene J. Winter
Part 7 Law and Literature
Chapter 23 Law's Literature, David Kennedy
Chapter 24 The Made-Up and the Made-Real, Elaine Scarry
Chapter 25 Narrative Battles in the Courtroom, Laura Hanft Korobkin
Chapter 26 Telling Stories, Telling Law, Martha Minow
Part 8 The Literary and the Autobiographical
Chapter 27 A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies, Sacvan Bercovitch
Chapter 28 Criticism and the Autobiographical Voice, Susan Rubin Suleiman
Chapter 29 Unsettling Homecoming, Svetlana Boym

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What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, fresh from the dig, presents a timely account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. Field Work 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, as well as scholars in areas as diverse as legal studies and Renaissance literature. From a rich variety of perspectives, these scholars excavate and explore foundational questions in their fields. Contributors: K. Anthony Appiah, Seyla Benhabib, Sacvan Bercovitch, Svetlana Boym, Norman Bryson, Lawrence Buell, Patrick Ford, Paul B. Franklin, Marjorie Garber, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Mary Gaylord, Beatrice Hanssen, Barbara Johnson, David Kennedy, Joseph Koener, Laura Korobkin, Meredith McGill, Jeffrey Masten, Jann Matlock, Martha Minow, Gregory Nagy, Stephen Owen, Judith Ryan, Elaine Scarry, Doris Sommer, Mary Steedly, Susan Suleiman, William Todd, Helen Vendler, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Irene Winter

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