Culture^2 : : Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1 / / ed. by Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre.

• MitwirkendeR: Bieger, Laura,; Breitenwischer, Dustin,; Haselstein, Ulla,; Kanzler, Katja,; Kelleter, Frank, 1965-; Löffler, Philipp, 1981-; Mueller, Stefanie,; Ramírez, J. Jesse,; Ribbat, Christoph,; Roberts, Kathryn S.,; Starre, Alexander,; Sulimma, Maria, 1985-; Voelz, Johannes,; Wasserman, Sarah,; Zipp, Samuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Kelleter, Frank, 1965-; Starre, Alexander,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

How to do cultural studies in the 21st century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The con...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Works in Chronological Order
• Entry
• Culture2: Entry
• Form . Critique
• 1. Make the Dialectic Great Again!
• 2. Only a Matter of Form?
• 3. Relate, Resist, Resurface
• The Late Great Age of Literature
• 4. The McGurl Era?
• 5. Reading and Writing (at) the Site of the Social
• Humans and Other Species
• 6. Cloud-Reading with John Durham Peters’s The Marvelous Clouds (2015)
• 7. Infinite Fungus
• Structures of Feminist Feeling and Storytelling
• 8. Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings’s Why Stories Matter (2011)
• 9. Affect, the Popular, and Vogues of Feeling in Pop Culture (Studies)
• Cruel Optimism
• 10. Style under Stress
• 11. Structures of the Impasse
• Inter Disciplinary Anxieties
• 12. A Connexionist Bartleby?
• 13. Of Apes and Children
• American Redescriptions
• 14. Polarization and the Limits of Empathy
• 15. Thick Redescription
• Contributors