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CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard


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The Seductions of Biography

The Seductions of Biography

1st Edition

Edited By David Suchoff, Mary Rhiel
April 16, 1996

The Seductions of Biography is an important volume which sheds new light on a flourishing literary form, the biography. In postmodern culture, new methods and intentions emerge, as well as new obstacles, towards our understanding of biography as a genre. This book provides a thorough exploration ...

Field Work Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies

Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
June 04, 1996

What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of ...

Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture

Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor
August 23, 2000

First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through a synthesis of historicism and ...

Secret Agents The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America

Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America

1st Edition

Edited By Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
September 06, 1995

When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today's courts they would not have been convicted of espionage. The 1950s trial of the Rosenbergs on charges ...

The Turn to Ethics

The Turn to Ethics

1st Edition

Edited By Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
August 11, 2000

What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of ...

One Nation Under God? Religion and American Culture

One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
August 18, 1999

One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today....

Cultures of Forgery Making Nations, Making Selves

Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves

1st Edition

Edited By Judith Ryan, Alfred Thomas
August 14, 2003

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other....

Media Spectacles

Media Spectacles

1st Edition

Edited By Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca Walkowitz
September 20, 1993

Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle....

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