O'Hara / Pease Empire Burlesque

The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8466-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Discusses the effects of globalization on the field of literary studies and the formation of a critical identity in America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Hara, Daniel T.

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: We Welcoming Others, or What's Wrong with the Global Point of View? 1

I. Reading as a Vanishing Act

1. Edward W. Said and the Fate of Critical Culture 29

2. Why Foucault No Longer Matters 43

3. Lentricchia's Frankness and the Place of Literature 62

II. Globalizing Literary Studies

4. Redesigning the Lessons of Literature 95

5. The Return to Ethics and the Specter of Reading 114

6. Class in a Global Light: The Two Professions 136

III. Analyzing Global America

7. Transference and Abjection: An Analytic Parable 163

8. Ghostwork: An Uncanny Prospect for New Americanists 183

9. Specter of Theory: The Bad Conscience of American Criticism 220

IV. Reading Worlds

10. Empire Baroque: Becoming Other in Henry James 237

11. Planet Buyer and the Catmaster: A Critical Future for Transference 301

Notes 339

Bibliography 357

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel T. O’Hara is Professor of English at Temple University. He has written and edited a number of books including Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency after Foucault and Lionel Trilling: The Work of Liberation. He is review editor of the journal Boundary 2.