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The Point of theory : practices of cultural analysis / edited by Mieke Bal and Inge E. Boer.

Contributor(s): Bal, Mieke, 1946- | Boer, Inge E
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Continuum, 1994Description: 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0826406572Subject(s): Culture -- CongressesDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: HM101 | .P626 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : what's the point? / Jonathan Culler -- Liberty, maternity, commodification / Kaja Silverman -- Scared to death / Mieke Bal -- Clues to events / Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry -- Whatever happened to descriptive poetics? / Brian McHale -- Art in context / Norman Bryson -- Death : the navel of the image / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The case of the missing women / Griselda Pollock -- Masking the subject : practicing theory / Marianne Hirsch -- In the long run we shall all be dead / Siep Stuurman -- Critical theory and the cultural life of historical images / Keith Moxey -- Generating the Renaissance, or the individualization of culture / Stephen Bann -- Kantian narrativism and beyond / Frank Ankersmit -- Learning to read : a commentary on a work by Janneke Lam / George Dimock -- The performativity of histories / Ernst van Alphen -- This is not the orient : theory and postcolonial practice / Inge E. Boer.
Witnessing an annunication / Michael Ann Holly -- The three (dis)graces / Parveen Adams -- The pictures over Freud's couch / George Dimock -- Sati and sanskrit : the move from orientalism to hinduism / Peter van de Veer -- The female voice as a fetish : occurrences in the practice of psychoanalysis and music / Joke Dame -- Situating the organism between telegraphs and computers / Evelyn Fox Keller.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HM101 .P626 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902000880

Papers presented at a conference.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and indexes.

Introduction : what's the point? / Jonathan Culler -- Liberty, maternity, commodification / Kaja Silverman -- Scared to death / Mieke Bal -- Clues to events / Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry -- Whatever happened to descriptive poetics? / Brian McHale -- Art in context / Norman Bryson -- Death : the navel of the image / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The case of the missing women / Griselda Pollock -- Masking the subject : practicing theory / Marianne Hirsch -- In the long run we shall all be dead / Siep Stuurman -- Critical theory and the cultural life of historical images / Keith Moxey -- Generating the Renaissance, or the individualization of culture / Stephen Bann -- Kantian narrativism and beyond / Frank Ankersmit -- Learning to read : a commentary on a work by Janneke Lam / George Dimock -- The performativity of histories / Ernst van Alphen -- This is not the orient : theory and postcolonial practice / Inge E. Boer.

Witnessing an annunication / Michael Ann Holly -- The three (dis)graces / Parveen Adams -- The pictures over Freud's couch / George Dimock -- Sati and sanskrit : the move from orientalism to hinduism / Peter van de Veer -- The female voice as a fetish : occurrences in the practice of psychoanalysis and music / Joke Dame -- Situating the organism between telegraphs and computers / Evelyn Fox Keller.

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