The concept of textuality in recent decades has come to designate a
fundamentally contested terrain within a number of academic
disciplines. How it came to occupy this position is the subject of
John Mowitt's book, a critical genealogy of the social and
intellectual conditions that contributed to the emergence of the
textual object. Beginning with the Tel Quel group in France in the
sixties and seventies, Mowitt's study details how a certain
interdisciplinary crisis prompted academics to rethink the
conditions of cultural interpretation. Concentrating on three
disciplinary projects--literary analysis, film studies, and
musicology--Mowitt shows how textuality's emergence called into
question not merely the relations among these disciplines, but also
the cultural logic of disciplinary reason as such. At once an
effort to define the text and to explore and extend the theory of
textuality, this book illustrates why the notion of
interdisciplinary research has recently acquired such urgency. At
the same time, by emphasizing the genealogical dimension of the
textual object, Mowitt raises the issues of its antidisciplinary
character, and by extension its immediate pertinence for the
current debates over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Innovative,
historically astute and theoretically informed, this important book
will be indispensable reading for all scholars in literary and
cultural studies.
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