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Interpreting Cultures

Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences

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  • © 2006

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  1. Jonathan Hart
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 1-17

  3. Recognitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Discovering Recognition

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 21-72

  4. Readings: History and Poetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. History and Empire

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 75-88

    3. Recognizing Canadian Women and Women in Canada

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 89-105

    4. Writing and History: T.E. Lawrence and Bernard and Charlotte Shaw

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 106-141

    5. Poiēma, Theoria, and Tekhnē

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 142-157

    6. Poetry and Mythology: Coda

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 158-163

  5. Readings: Writers, Images, and Poets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Creating the Word: Northrop Frye and Writing

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 167-184

    3. Seeing Inside Willy Loman’s Head: The Tragedy of the Commoner on Film

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 185-193

    4. Placing Ireland: Some Lyric Poets

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 194-209

    5. Being Novel, Almost and Not

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 210-222

    6. Conclusion

      • Jonathan Hart
      Pages 223-238

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-340
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About this book

This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study combines theoretical and critical contexts for close readings in culture through discussions of literature, philosophy, history, psychology and visual arts by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond.

About the author

Jonathan Hart is a poet, critic, historian, and author of Theater and World, Breath and Dust, Representing the New World, Empires and Colonies, Musing, Dreamwork, From Shakespeare to Obama. He has held appointments and visiting appointments at Toronto, Cambridge, Alberta, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Princeton, Harvard and elsewhere. His work has been translated into many languages.

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