“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary
topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice
of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly As a break from
their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour
today? This collection of essays uses these figures of ancient legend
to explore such modern-day topics as the curious return of myth and
ritual in the theories of evolutionary psychologists and much more.
Two themes emerge consistently. The first is that to predict the
“next big thing” in literary studies, we should look back at ideas
and practices set aside by a previous generation of critics. In the
past several decades we have seen the reemergence of—for
example—textual editing, biography, character criticism, aesthetics,
and philology as “hot” new areas for critical intervention. The
second theme expands on this observation, making the case for
“cultural forgetting” as the way the arts and humanities renew
themselves, both within fields and across them. Although she is never
represented in traditional paintings or poetry, a missing Muse—we
can call her Amnesia—turns out to be a key figure for the creation
of theory and criticism in the arts.
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ISBN
9780823273744
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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