Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

by Fuery, Patrick; Mansfield, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780195512946
• ISBN10: 0195512944
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second edition of Cultural Studies and the New Humanities provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the new millennium, providing historical background, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of key thinkers. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and new chapters have been added about the rise of visual cultures and the fierce contemporary debate between identity politics and queer theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Preface	vii
Introduction	xi
Part One The Humanities After Humanism	1	(36)
Introduction	2	(2)
Post-humanism	4	(14)
The Text, Culture, and the Unconscious: Life Without the Canon	18	(19)
Part Two From Interpretation to Interaction	37	(66)
Introduction	38	(1)
The Readerly Question: Phenomenology, Semiotics, and the Act of Reading	39	(17)
Deconstruction, The Death of the Author, and Intertextuality	56	(15)
Seduced by the Text: Theories of the Gaze	71	(15)
Visual Cultures	86	(17)
Part Three Contextuality	103	(54)
Introduction	104	(1)
Contextuality: Postmodernism	105	(17)
Contextuality: Feminism and the Fluidity of Noir	122	(20)
Contextuality: The Cultural Politics of Postmodernism	142	(15)
Part Four Texts and Subjects	157	(42)
Introduction	158	(1)
The Edge of the Mirror: The Subject and the Other	159	(13)
Making and Unmaking the Subject	172	(14)
Deconstructing Sexuality	186	(13)
Conclusion	199	(5)
Glossary	204	(13)
Bibliography	217	(8)
Index	225