1st Edition

Interdiscipline A Future for Literary Studies and the Humanities

By Petar Ramadanovic Copyright 2022
262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together two different discussions on the value of the humanities and a broader debate on interdisciplinary scholarship in order to propose a new way beyond current threats to the humanities. Petar Ramadanovic offers nothing short of a drastic rehaul of our approaches to literary scholarship, the humanities, and university systems. Beginning with an analysis of what is often... Read more

Introduction: From Crises Discourses to Interdisciplinary Discipline  1. "We": Crises Responses and Literary Studies as a Theory of Interpretation  2. Mere Reading: Recasting Hermeneutic Epistemology in Literary Studies  3. Peer Review: Evaluation as a Form of Reading  4. What DH?: Return to Formalism in the Age of Big Data  5. Convergence: An Interdisciplinary Theory of Interdisciplinarity  Conclusion: Interdisciplinary Curricular Organization and the Glue that Holds It Together

Biography

Petar Ramadanovic is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA.