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From: Raleigh Whitinger <[log in to unmask]>
The journal "Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies" invites article
submissions to a Special Theme Issue entitled "Image, Body, Text," with
Guest Editor Professor Timothy Mehigan, University of Otago, New
Zealand.
That our constructions of culture have a mental aspect, was highlighted
in anthropology in the 1970s in the work of David Schneider and Roy
Wagner and in political sociology in the early 1980s by Benedict
Anderson. The study of literature has profited from this expansive
notion of culture at a moment when its own classifications such as
Literaturgeschichte and hermeneutics have been undergoing revision. New
approaches to literature in an age of culture have underscored, among
many other things, how literature is linked with cultural constructions
such as the image (and thereby to a problematic of "seeing"), to
natural science (and thereby to a problematic of "knowing"), and to
philosophy (and thereby to a problematic of "awareness"). That
literature also follows a model of culture in practice where meaning is
imaginatively embodied, offers the new prospect of overcoming the old
divide between mind and body, concept and performance. The goal of this
special issue of Seminar is to reflect on the nature of the texts of
modern culture - literary, visual and otherwise - illuminating moments
of their construction as well as their dynamic embodiments as documents
of culture in action.
Submit manuscripts to Professor Tim Mehigan, Chair and Head, Department
of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, by 1 September 2006.
For further information contact:
Guest Editor, Professor Timothy Mehigan,
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and/or
Editor, Seminar, Raleigh Whitinger, [log in to unmask]
Consult also:
http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/seminar/
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