Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1526106981 ISBN 13: 9781526106988

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Writing otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, all risk new ways of writing about themselves and their subjects.

Aimed at both general and academic readers interested in how scholarly writing might be more innovative and creative, this collection introduces the personal, the poetic and the experimental into the frame of cultural criticism. This collection of essays is highly interdisciplinary and contributes to debates in sociology, history, anthropology, art history, cultural and media studies and gender studies.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester.

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This collection experiments with new styles of cultural criticism and explores how academics might write in more engaging ways. Sometimes more personally, sometimes more poetically, the chapters in this book all express the desire to write otherwise. Reworking forms such as the memoir, family history and ethnography, these essays engage readers directly and immediately in questions of narration, representation and ethics.

Leading figures in their field, including Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, step outside their usual ways of writing to explore how their academic concerns might be more imaginatively articulated.

Contributions move beyond conventional academic writing and into more exploratory registers to consider subjects such as: feminist collaborations, memories of dislocation, movement and belonging, intimacy and affect, encountering difference, passionate connections to art and opera. Some chapters use personal writing to interrogate theoretical issues; others put conceptual questions next to therapeutic ones; all of them offer the reader new ways of thinking about how and why we write, and how we might do it differently. Discovering the creative spaces in between traditional genres, many of the chapters show how new styles of writing open up new ways of doing cultural criticism.

This book will be of interest to readers across the humanities disciplines and in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, gender studies and visual studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in writing and culture.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

This collection experiments with new styles of cultural criticism and explores how academics might write in more engaging ways. Sometimes more personally, sometimes more poetically, the chapters in this book all express the desire to write otherwise. Reworking forms such as the memoir, family history and ethnography, these essays engage readers directly and immediately in questions of narration, representation and ethics. Leading figures in their field, including Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, step outside their usual ways of writing to explore how their academic concerns might be more imaginatively articulated. Contributions move beyond conventional academic writing and into more exploratory registers to consider subjects such as: feminist collaborations, memories of dislocation, movement and belonging, intimacy and affect, encountering difference, passionate connections to art and opera. Some chapters use personal writing to interrogate theoretical issues; others put conceptual questions next to therapeutic ones; all of them offer the reader new ways of thinking about how and why we write, and how we might do it differently. Discovering the creative spaces in between traditional genres, many of the chapters show how new styles of writing open up new ways of doing cultural criticism. This book will be of interest to readers across the humanities disciplines and in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, gender studies and visual studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in writing and culture.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526106981
• ISBN 13: 9781526106988
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Stacey Jackie, Wolff Janet
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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