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Dialogues on Cultural Studies

Interviews with Contemporary Critics

Dialogues on Cultural Studies( )
Author: Dirlik, Arif
Ebert, Teresa
Foley, Barbara
Jameson, Fredric
McCallum, Pamela
Miller, J. Hillis
Miyoshi, Masao
Robbins, Bruce
Rowe, John Carlos
Schwarz, Henry
Terdiman, Richard
White, Hayden V.
Editor: XIE, Shaobo
Wang, Fengzhen
ISBN:978-1-280-94582-3
Publication Date:Jan 2002
Publisher:University of Calgary Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

A collection of interviews with some of North America's foremost cultural critics and theorists, including Frederic Jameson, J Hillis Miller, Hayden White, etc. Covers topics such as culture, ideology, history, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalisation, the role of the university and the role of the intellectual in today's society. Some of the contributions are essays, others are responses to questions, and some take up all the subjects and some only focus on one...
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Pages:280
Author Biography
Dirlik, Arif (Author)
Hayden V. White was born in Martin, Tennessee on July 12, 1928. He enlisted in the Navy near the end of World War II. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Wayne State University in 1951 and a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1952. After spending two years in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship researching church reform in the Middle Ages, he received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1956. He taught at several universities including Wayne State University, the University of Rochester, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, and several campuses of the University of California system.

He wrote several books including Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, The Practical Past, and The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature and Theory 1957-2007. He died on March 5, 2018 at the age of 89.

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