Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2020.9

How to Do Cul­tur­al Stud­ies: Ideas, Approach­es, Sce­nar­ios
Over the past three decades, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies with­in Ger­man Anglis­tik have become a suc­cess sto­ry: rel­e­vant research has been under­tak­en, syl­labi (in uni­ver­si­ties and schools) have been redesigned, depart­ments have been restruc­tured and most stu­dents are enthu­si­as­tic. What is to be desired, are more pub­li­ca­tions which con­crete­ly describe, suc­cinct­ly analyse and amply illus­trate ideas, approach­es and sce­nar­ios of how to do Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, be it in the uni­ver­si­ty class­room or, else­where, study­ing inde­pen­dent­ly.
The present vol­ume tries to pro­vide a start. In eleven con­tri­bu­tions it is being demon­strat­ed how stu­dents and teach­ers in uni­ver­si­ties and schools as well as self-learn­ers can make com­plex cul­tur­al nexus­es their own. The great vari­ety of top­ics and didac­tic approach­es is intend­ed: all read­ers should be able to choose from a wide range of ideas and approach­es, so that they do not only study what they are offered in this vol­ume but also feel encour­aged to devel­op projects of their own.
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The Gen­res of Genre: Form, For­mats, and Cul­tur­al For­ma­tions
The 38th vol­ume of SPELL is ded­i­cat­ed to the dis­cus­sion and analy­sis of the con­cept of genre. Terms such as “the polit­i­cal uncon­scious” (Jame­son), “cul­tur­al work” (Tomp­kins), “nar­ra­tive mode” (Williams) and “per­for­ma­tive” (Austin, Turn­er) have been cen­tral­ly deter­min­ing, over the years, to help us under­stand how gen­res work and what they do. This col­lec­tion seeks to fur­ther explore what roles genre plays in past and con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can nation­al nar­ra­tives and counter-nar­ra­tives. While the first three essays of the vol­ume attempt to tack­le the dif­fi­cult task of defin­ing genre and its affor­dances, the fol­low­ing three essays dis­cuss spe­cif­ic gen­res, name­ly, the office nov­el, the polit­i­cal TV show, and sci­ence-fic­tion. Final­ly, the last three essays explore how genre can be a valu­able con­cept for the analy­sis of larg­er issues, such as the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of race in Amer­i­can cul­tur­al pro­duc­tions. This col­lec­tion of essays there­fore offers a vari­ety of approach­es to the lit­er­ary device of genre, reflect­ing ongo­ing research in the Swiss com­mu­ni­ty of Amer­i­can stud­ies, in order to under­line the pro­duc­tive poten­tial of genre analy­sis.
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