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LITERATURE AND CULTURE:
The Work of Catherine Belsey
‘I haven’t by any means abandoned written texts,
but I find it hard to think of any good reason
for keeping cultural modes apart.’
‘From Critical Practice to Cultural Criticism: An Interview with Catherine Belsey’, Textual Practice 19.1 (2005): 7.
For more than twenty-five years, the influential work of Catherine Belsey has interrogated traditional assumptions about how we read texts, how texts address us, and even what a text is.
This international conference considers the difference that Belsey’s work has made to the study of literature and culture.
Catherine Belsey is Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her many publications include: Critical Practice (1980; second edition 2002), The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (1985), John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (1988), The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism (edited with Jane Moore, 1989; second edition 1997), Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (1994), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture (1999), Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism (2005), and Why Shakespeare? (2007).
This international conference considers the difference that Belsey’s work has made to the study of literature and culture.
Catherine Belsey is Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her many publications include: Critical Practice (1980; second edition 2002), The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (1985), John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (1988), The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism (edited with Jane Moore, 1989; second edition 1997), Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (1994), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture (1999), Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism (2005), and Why Shakespeare? (2007).
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