Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Introduction: The Situation of Criticism

pp 1-8

Part I - Critical Positioning Systems

pp 9-10

1 - Swerve, Trope, Peripety: Turning Points in Cultural Criticism and Theory

pp 11-24

2 - The Aesthetics of Distance: Space, Weltliteratur, and Critique

pp 25-40

3 - World Literature and Its Discontents

pp 41-58

4 - Worlding Space: Spatial Literary Studies and the Planetary Turn

pp 59-70

5 - In the File Drawer Labeled “Science Fiction”: Genre after the Age of the Novel

pp 71-86

Part II - Post-Americanist Interpolations

pp 87-88

6 - “Believing in America”: The Ideology of American Studies

pp 89-104

7 - “Some men ride on such space”: Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael, the Melville Revival, and the American Baroque

pp 105-122

8 - The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: The Consequences of Richard Weaver’s Ideas

pp 123-146

9 - Bleeping Mark Twain?: Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature

pp 147-158

10 - I Am the Mainstream Media (and So Can You!): The Hyperreality of “Fake News”

pp 159-178

Part III - Errant Trajectories in Postmodern Critical Practice

pp 179-180

11 - Nomadography: Gilles Deleuze and the History of Philosophy

pp 181-194

12 - Power to the Educated Imagination!: Northrop Frye and the Utopian Impulse

pp 195-208

13 - Edward Said and Marxism: Wars of Position in Oppositional Criticism

pp 209-226

14 - An American Bakhtin: Jonathan Arac, or, the Vocation of the Critic

pp 227-242

15 - Bathsheba’s Stomach: Poiesis and Criticism in Paul A. Bové’s Love’s Shadow

pp 243-250

Conclusion: An Anagogical Education

pp 251-256

Acknowledgments

pp 257-258

Index

pp 259-265