What is the university's role in the production of cultural
ideals? With increasingly interdisciplinary approaches being
employed in scholarship, can we speak of discrete fields of
study?
The results of a collaborative research project by the Critical
Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine, this
collection explores the role that scholars and universities play in
shaping and defining culture, and how teaching and research
institutions are changing in response to international movements
and social forces. Investigating the way "high" culture
(literature, liberal education) and popular culture (fashion, film)
are dealt with in the classroom, these essays show that the
"culture wars" of the 1980s and '90s are by no means over; they
have simply warped into new, less visible struggles for control of
educational funding, curricula, academic "standards," and
pedagogical authority.
The essays in this volume range widely. Sacvan Bercovitch
defends the literary ideal of culture through his examination of
Faulkner's "Light in August;" Linda Williams explores visual
culture through Hitchcock's "Psycho;" and Leslie Rabine considers
the intersections of fashion, race, and gender. J. Hillis Miller
details how "cultural studies" might positively change the
structure of the university, and Mark Poster challenges historians
to develop methods of representing history that are adequate to the
complexity of lived experience.
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