The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis

By Mieke Bal and Inge Boer

Book Overview

What is the point of bringing reflexive discourse called theory to bear on such diverse subjects as the Statue of Liberty, the dTcor of Freud's study, a fifteenth-century triptych and contemporary science, on Kant and postmodern literature, Indian traditions and the voice of a soprano? The Point of Theory works to reintegrate theory and theorizing into a culture disturbed by "anti-theorism" and political "in-correctness." In this book, twenty-two cultural theorists seek to make the workings of culture understandable.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826406572
• ISBN13: 9780826406576
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"