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Interdisciplinarity: Working with Concepts
Interdisciplinarity: Working with Concepts

Author(s): Mieke Bal
Subject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Concepts; interdisciplinarity; analysis; objects; travel; methodology; humanities; art;

Summary/Abstract: My two intellectual passions are interdisciplinarity and methodological rigour. The former is motivated by my interest in social-cultural reality, where disciplinary boundaries seem irrelevant. The latter comes from my desire, as a teacher, to empower students to do their own analytical work. Hence, the interest in ‘travelling’ concepts as tools for interdisciplinary analysis. Below, I give a few arguments in favour of concepts over (disciplinary) methods, and then I sum up a few examples of useful concepts in the Humanities.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 11-28
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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