Poetics of Politics - Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

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.

About the author

Stefan Schubert, geb. 1982, Studium der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaften an der Universität Erfurt, gefolgt von einem Masterstudium Literaturwissenschaft mit entsprechendem Abschluss 2014. Seine Interessen gelten insbesondere den Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Caroli Alice Hofmann (Editor), Sebastian M. Herrmann (Editor), Carolin Alice Hofmann (Editor), Katja Kanzler (Editor), Katja Kanzler et al (Editor), Stefan Schubert (Editor), Frank Usbeck (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9783825364472
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6447-2
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 489 g
• Series: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies; American Studies / A Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerikanische Literatur, Postmoderne, Tarantino, Quentin, neue Medien, Social Media, amerikanische Gesellschaft, Amerikanische Politik, amerikanischer Film, Amerikanische Kultur, Textualität, Franzen, Jonathan, Kushner, Tony, Goldthwait, Bob, Soderbergh, Steven, amerikanische TV-Serien, Mamet, David, Beinhart, Larry