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Poetics of Politics (eBook)

Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Autor: Sebastian M. (Hrsg.) Herrmann
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ISBN: 978-3-8253-7517-1
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This volume proposes the 'poetics of politics' as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a 'grand epochal transition.'

Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic - always locally specific - that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.

Autor Herrmann, Sebastian M. (Hrsg.) / Hofmann, Carolin Alice (Hrsg.) / Kanzler, Katja (Hrsg.) / Schubert, Stefan (Hrsg.) / Usbeck, Frank (Hrsg.)
Verlag Universitätsverlag Winter
Einband PDF
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
Seitenangabe 340 S.
Ausgabekennzeichen Englisch

Über den Autor Sebastian M. (Hrsg.) Herrmann

Sebastian M. Herrmann is an American studies scholar at Leipzig University, Germany. His work is focused on the poetics of ('post-truth') politics, on popular culture, and on symbolic forms. His most recent monograph, currently forthcoming, focuses on the interdependence of data and literature in ninetheenth-century US culture.Katja Kanzler is a professor of American literature at Universität Leipzig, Germany. Her work is focused on the intersectionalities of »race,« class, and gender in US-American literature and popular culture, on genres of popular culture past and present, and on the dynamics of narrativity and textuality in different genres and media.Stefan Schubert researches and teaches at the Institute for American Studies at Universität Leipzig, Germany. His main interests include US popular culture, (post-)postmodernism, cultural politics, 19th-century literature, and questions of textuality and narrativity. His postdoctoral research project focuses on the emergence of privilege in late nineteenth-century US literature and culture.

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