Packing and Unpacking Culture: changing models of British Studies

EN: This volume of essays derives from a series of academic initiatives through the 1980s and 1990s, involving co-operation between British and Polish universities and the British Council in Warsaw. It is predicated upon an acceptance that the continued development of Cultural Studies, variously defined and practised, offers progressive opportunities for educational enlargement which are just as necessary for traditionally-instituted disciplines as for more recent multi-, inter- or anti-disciplinary approaches. It is also grounded upon a rejection of the simplistic military metaphor which draws an implacable battle-line between an Arnoldian sense of value and whatever it is that the imagined opposition is seen to take as its concern. These emphases have been articulated by some of the contributors to this volume in one of the earlier initiatives upon which we have been building