REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Volume 38

Laura Bieger is Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research and teaching focuses on the relation of aesthetics and politics.Johannes Voelz is Professor of American Studies, Democracy, and Aesthetics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. His work focuses on American literature, culture, and political aesthetics.

Celebrating the 80th birthday of Winfried Fluck, this volume of REAL gathers leading US-American and European literary scholars from English and American Studies to engage some of his classic essays, covering topics that range from the aesthetics of early American literature to the history of our digital present and from the Americanization of literary studies to the search for American democratic culture. Each of the volume's twelve dialogues consists of a republished essay by Fluck and a response by one his interlocutors, written specifically for this occasion. Contributors include field-defining scholars, long-time companions, and colleagues whose intellectual trajectory has been impacted by Fluck's incisive metacriticsm and his reception-oriented approach to literary and cultural history. The twelve dialogues reassess debates that have shaped literary studies in the late twentieth century and they inquire into the paradigmatic shifts that are currently reorganizing the field.

Celebrating the 80th birthday of Winfried Fluck, this volume of REAL gathers leading US-American and European literary scholars from English and American Studies to engage one of the most important European scholars of American Studies. Each of the volume's twelve dialogues consists of a republished essay by Fluck and a response by one his interlocutors, written specifically for this occasion. Covered topics range from the aesthetics of early American literature to the history of our digital present and from the Americanization of literary studies to the search for American democratic culture.

Vermittelt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der American Studies, Dialoge zwischen deutschen und US-amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaften, Tiefgehende Auseinandersetzungen mit einem der wichtigsten Amerikanisten unserer Zeit

Winfried Fluck: The Americanization of Literary StudiesLeonard Cassuto: "The Americanization of Literary Studies" RevisitedWinfried Fluck: Literature, Liberalism, and the Current Cultural RadicalismStephen Greenblatt: Response to Winfried Fluck, "Literature, Liberalism, and the Current Cultural Radicalism"Winfried Fluck: Lionel Trilling, Jane Austen, and American LiteratureJonathan Arac: The Long Lineage of Cultural Politics: Lionel Trilling Once MoreWinfried Fluck: Systemic Containment or Imaginary Self-Extension? A Theory of American LiteratureSusanne Rohr: From Seesaw to Standstill? The Transnational Imaginary in Katie Kitamura's IntimaciesWinfried Fluck: Crossing the Threshold: Realism and the Expression of EmotionsPeter Schneck: A Feel for the Real: Realism, Observation and Emotional Identification: A Response to Winfried FluckWinfried Fluck: From Aesthetics to Political Criticism: Theories of the Early American NovelPhilipp Schweighauser: Fluck and the Early American NovelWinfried Fluck: Aesthetics and Cultural StudiesRita Felski: "Aesthetics and Cultural Studies" RevisitedWinfried Fluck: The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as TransferRamón Saldivar: Winfried Fluck and the Social Imaginary: Reading "The Imaginary and the Second Narrative"Winfried Fluck: Reading for RecognitionJohannes Voelz: Aesthetics and Affects of RecognitionWinfried Fluck: Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory: Narratives of Self-AlienationLaura Bieger: Reading for Premises: Some Thoughts on Winfried Fluck's Field Shaping MethodWinfried Fluck: From Mass Culture to Self Serve MediaFrank Kelleter: Your Culture My Clutter: Popular Media and the History of Our Digital PresentWinfried Fluck: Narratives About American Democratic CultureHeinz Ickstadt: Searching for "American Democratic Culture"