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Format: 1 online resource (386 p.)

ISBN: 9780822384663

Series Statement: New Americanists

Content: Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self-parody, O’Hara aims to shock U.S. cultural criticism back into a sense of ethical responsibility.Empire Burlesque presents several interrelated analyses through readings of a range of writers and cultural figures including Henry James, Freud, Said, De Man, Derrida, and Cordwainer Smith (an academic, spy, and classic 1950s and 1960s science fiction writer). It describes the debilitating effects of globalization on the university in general and the field of literary studies in particular, it critiques literary studies’ embrace of globalization theory in the name of a blind and vacant modernization, and it meditates on the ways critical reading and writing can facilitate an imaginative alternative to institutionalized practices of modernization. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalytical theory, it diagnoses contemporary American Studies as typically driven by the mindless abjection and transference of professional identities.A provocative commentary on contemporary cultural criticism, Empire Burlesque will inform debates on the American university across the humanities, particularly among those in literary criticism, cultural studies, and American studies.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: We Welcoming Others, or What’s Wrong with the Global Point of View? -- , I. Reading as a Vanishing Act -- , 1. Edward W. Said and the Fate of Critical Culture -- , 2. Why Foucault No Longer Matters -- , 3. Lentricchia’s Frankness and the Place of Literature -- , II. Globalizing Literary Studies -- , 4. Redesigning the Lessons of Literature -- , 5. The Return to Ethics and the Specter of Reading -- , 6. Class in a Global Light: The Two Professions -- , III. Analyzing Global America -- , 7. Transference and Abjection: An Analytic Parable -- , 8. Ghostwork: An Uncanny Prospect for New Americanists -- , 9. Specter of Theory: The Bad Conscience of American Criticism -- , IV. Reading Worlds -- , 10. Empire Baroque: Becoming Other in Henry James -- , 11. Planet Buyer and the Catmaster: A Critical Future for Transference -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822384663

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384663

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384663

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Format: 1 online resource (387 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-92066-9 , 9786612920660 , 0-8223-8466-3

Series Statement: New Americanists

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

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Edward W. Said and the fate of critical culture -- Why Foucault no longer matters -- Lentricchia's frankness and the place of literature -- Redesigning the lessons of literature -- The return to ethics and the specter of reading -- Class in a global light : the two professions -- Transference and abjection : an analytic parable -- Ghostwork : an uncanny prospect for new Americanists -- Specter of theory : the bad conscience of American criticism -- Empire baroque : becoming other in Henry James -- Planet buyer and the catmaster : a critical future for transference. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-3019-9

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-3032-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822384663

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384663

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384663