Interdisciplinarity
By: Joe Moran
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The new critical idiom; New critical idiom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780415560061; 9780415560078; 9780203866184
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Theory; Study and teaching; Interdisciplinary approach in education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the disciplines; title: Defining interdisciplinarity; title: Interdisciplinary English; title: The birth of English; title: Literature, life and thought; title: Leavis and the university; title: The cultural project of English; title: Library English in America; title: The Fall of English; title: 2. Literature into culture; title: Founding documents; title: The sociological turn; title: The culture of everyday life; title: Class and cultural capital; title: Cultural value and the knowledge class; title: 3. Theory and the disciplines; title: Linguistics and literariness; title: Deconstructing philosophy; title: Psychoanalysis, language and culture; title: Feminism and the body; title: Queering the disciplines; title: Theory as metadiscipline; title: 4. Texts in history; title: Literature and history; title: Marxism and culture; title: Knowledge and power; title: Textual historicities; title: Shakespeare and Englit; title: 5. Science, space and nature; title: The challenge to empiricism; title: Science as culture; title: Geography as text; title: Ecocriticism and science; title: Theories of everything; title: Conclusion: interdisciplinarity today; title: The critique of interdisciplinarity; title: The survival of the disciplines; title: Victorian studies/cultural studies.