Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity : The Changing American Academy

The Study Of Culture In The American Academy Is Not Confined To A Single Field, But Is A Broad-based Set Of Interests Located Within And Across Disciplines. This Book Investigates The Relationship Among Three Major Ideas In The American Academy - Interdisciplinarity, Humanities, And Culture - And Traces The Convergence Of These Ideas From The Colonial College To New Scholarly Developments In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century. Its Aim Is Twofold: To Define The Changing Relationship Of These Three Ideas And, In The Course Of Doing So, To Extend Present Thinking About The Concept Of American Cultural Studies. The Book Includes Two Sets Of Case Studies - The First On The Implications Of Interdisciplinarity For Literary Studies, Art History, And Music; The Second On The Shifting Trajectories Of American Studies, African American Studies, And Women's Studies - And Concludes By Asking What Impact New Scholarly Practices Have Had On Humanities Education, Particularly On The Undergraduate Curriculum.--book Jacket. Introduction : Humanities, Culture, And Interdisciplinarity -- Forming Humanities -- Changing Humanities -- Forging Theory, Practice, And Institutional Presence -- Rewriting The Literary -- Refiguring The Visual -- Retuning The Aural -- Reconstructing American Studies -- Defining Other Americas -- Conclusion : Crafting Humanities For A New Century. Julie Thompson Klein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [221]-249) And Index. HUMANITIES, CULTURE, AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY......Page 2 contents......Page 8 acknowledgments......Page 10 INTRODUCTION Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity......Page 12 Part I HISTORICAL WARRANTS......Page 20 1. FORMING HUMANITIES......Page 22 2. CHANGING HUMANITIES......Page 45 3. FORGING THEORY, PRACTICE, AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENCE......Page 66 Part II INTER/DISCIPLINING HUMANITIES......Page 92 4. REWRITING THE LITERARY......Page 94 5. REFIGURING THE VISUAL......Page 118 6. RETUNING THE AURAL......Page 139 Part III INTERDISCIPLINING “AMERICA”......Page 162 7. RECONSTRUCTING AMERICAN STUDIES......Page 164 8. DEFINING OTHER AMERICAS......Page 187 CONCLUSION CRAFTING HUMANITIES FOR A NEW CENTURY......Page 214 Works Cited......Page 232 A......Page 262 B......Page 263 C......Page 264 E......Page 265 G......Page 266 H......Page 267 I......Page 269 L......Page 270 M......Page 272 P......Page 273 R......Page 274 S......Page 275 T......Page 276 W......Page 277 Y......Page 278