Humanities, culture, and interdisciplinarity : the changing American academy / Julie Thompson Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Julie Thompson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Humanities.

Humanities--Philosophy.

Culture--Study and teaching--United States.

Culture.

Education, Humanistic--United States.

Education, Humanistic.

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.

Learning and scholarship--United States.

Learning and scholarship.

Learned institutions and societies--United States.

Learned institutions and societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-249) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482674

0791482677

9781423747871

1423747879

OCLC:

461442176