CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: We Welcoming Others, or What’s Wrong with the Global Point of View? 1
6. I. Reading as a Vanishing Act
7. 1. Edward W. Said and the Fate of Critical Culture 29
8. 2. Why Foucault No Longer Matters 43
9. 3. Lentricchia’s Frankness and the Place of Literature 62
10. II. Globalizing Literary Studies
11. 4. Redesigning the Lessons of Literature 95
12. 5. The Return to Ethics and the Specter of Reading 114
13. 6. Class in a Global Light: The Two Professions 136
14. III. Analyzing Global America
15. 7. Transference and Abjection: An Analytic Parable 163
16. 8. Ghostwork: An Uncanny Prospect for New Americanists 183
17. 9. Specter of Theory: The Bad Conscience of American Criticism 220
18. IV. Reading Worlds
19. 10. Empire Baroque: Becoming Other in Henry James 237
20. 11. Planet Buyer and the Catmaster: A Critical Future for Transference 301
21. Notes 339
22. Bibliography 357
23. Index 365