| Description |
xxiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 - The Humanities After Humanism -- 1. Post-Humanism -- 2. The Text, Culture and The Unconscious: Life Without the Cannon -- Part 2 - From Interpretation to Interaction -- 1. The Readerly Question: Phenomenology, Semiotics and the Act of Reading -- 2. The Death of the Author and Intertextuality -- 3. Seduced by the Text: Theories of the Gaze -- 4. The Skin of the Text: The Body and Horror -- Part 3 - Contextuality -- 1. Contextuality: From Realism to Modernism -- 2. Contextuality: Feminism and the Fluidity of Noir -- 3. Contextuality: Postmodernism -- Part 4 - Texts and Subjects -- 1. The Edge of the Mirror: The Subject and the Other -- 2. Making and Un-Making the Subject -- 3. Sexuality: Obscured Objects of Desire -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The contemporary humanities -- from "intertextuality" to "queer theory" -- are a minefield of new theories and controversies. This book explores some of the new ways of thinking about the traditional arts and human sciences, providing historical background, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of the important personalities. -- Back cover |
| Analysis |
Critical theory |
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Humanities |
| Notes |
CIP changed: former title was Incites : an introduction to new humanities |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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Humanities.
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Popular culture.
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| Author |
Mansfield, Nicholas, 1952-
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| LC no. |
97148201 |
| ISBN |
0195539591 |
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