{"product_id":"travelling-concepts-in-the-humanities-a-rough-guide-9780802084101","title":"Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eAttempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Concepts are not grids to put over an object. The counterpart of any given concept is the cultural text or work or 'thing' that constitutes the object of analysis. No concept is meaningful for cultural analysis unless it helps us to understand the object better on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBal offers the reader a sustained theoretical reflection on how to 'do' cultural analysis through a tentative practice of doing just that. This offers a concrete practice to theoretical constructs, and allows the proposed method more accessibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mieke Bal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 5.90w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802084101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBal, Mieke:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMieke Bal\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and professor of cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44456485290099,"sku":"9780802084101","price":96.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_33027209-9870-4b4b-bd44-498f37659063.jpg?v=1773751550","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/travelling-concepts-in-the-humanities-a-rough-guide-9780802084101","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}