2nd Edition

Interdisciplinarity

By Joe Moran Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university. Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized knowledge into disciplines, and are now reorganizing it into new configurations as existing structures come to seem restrictive. Joe Moran... Read more

Preface to the Second Edition  Introduction  1. Interdisciplinary English  2. Literature into Culture  3. Theory and the Disciplines  4. Texts in History  5. Science, Space and Nature  Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity today

Biography

Joe Moran is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. His books include Reading the Everyday (2005) and On Roads: A Hidden History (2009), and he is also a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Guardian and the Financial Times.