| Description |
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. What is the human? The reach of the imagination / Philippa Kelly & L.E. Semler -- Part one. What is the human? Expressions and suppressions -- The inhuman in the humanities : Darwin and the ends of man / Elizabeth Grosz -- Narratives of identity and authenticity : the humanities meets leadership studies / Jan Shaw -- A critical politics of the human : Judith Butler and Gilles Deleuze / Hannah Stark -- Not quite human : traversing the uncanny valley / Kathy Cleland -- Diffused reflection of body imageries : dolls as humans and humans as dolls / Mio Bryce -- Human and superhuman in contemporary Japanese girls' manga / Rebecca Suter -- Part two. Spaces for the human : personal and political frontiers -- Frontiers of life and death : the human, new wars and world literary sensibilities / Debjani Ganguly -- Neurology is destiny : character and consciousness in Ian McEwan's 'Saturday' / Nicole Heber -- Human values in a mass society : a reading of George Orwell's novels / Peter Goodall -- Telling stories at the permeable borders of the human in David Malouf's 'Ransom' / Yvonne Smith -- Displacing geographies of memory : the Australian and New Zealand memorials, London / Matthew Graves -- Part three. What was the human? Then and now -- Must humanity perforce prey upon itself? 'King Lear', war and the humanities / R.S. White -- Defining the demonic in ancient China / Jeffrey Riegel -- Hamlet and the crisis in the humanities / Bob Hodge -- Reel life : representing the human in Michael Almereyda's 'Hamlet' / Marina Gerzic -- Milton and the fit reader / Ronald Bedford -- 'Paradise lost' aloud : then and now / Beverley Sherry |
| Summary |
Brings together seventeen Australian voices giving illuminating perspectives on fundamental questions. They speak from many disciplines in the Humanities and probe the cultural products of humanity, past and present, inscribed on bodies and texts, in oral, print and digital media |
| Analysis |
Cultural studies (Australia) |
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Epistemology (Australia) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
| Subject |
Culture -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Australia.
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Culture -- Study and teaching.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Hodge, Bob.
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Kelly, Philippa.
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Semler, L. E.
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| ISBN |
1921875607 (paperback) |
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9781921875601 (paperback) |
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