Interpreting Cultures / Edition 1

by J Hart

Overview

This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study combines theoretical and critical contexts for close readings in culture through discussions of literature, philosophy, history, psychology and visual arts by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403971289
Publisher:	Wicked Bent Press
Publication date:	10/01/2006
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Hart is a poet, critic, historian, and author of Theater and World, Breath and Dust, Representing the New World, Empires and Colonies, Musing, Dreamwork, From Shakespeare to Obama. He has held appointments and visiting appointments at Toronto, Cambridge, Alberta, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Princeton, Harvard and elsewhere. His work has been translated into many languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction Recognitions Readings: History and Poetics Readings: Writers, Images and Poets Conclusion