Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation
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Ulla Haselstein
Ulla Haselstein is Professor of American Literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She was a visiting scholar at the Center of Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 1993 – 94, a visiting professor of American Literature at UC Irvine in 2001, an Aby Warburg Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg in 2009, and a Harris Professor at Dartmouth College in 2024. In 2014, she was awarded an “Opus Magnum” grant by the VolkswagenStiftung. Her work has appeared inComparative Literature ,New Literary History , andPoetica. She has published widely on psychoanalysis, modernist and postmodernist literature, Native American Studies, and literary theory. Her most recent book publications areThe Cultural Career of Coolness (co-ed., Lanham MD: Rowman, 2013),Allegorie (ed., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) andGertrude Steins Literarische Porträts (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2019).Florian Sedlmeier is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg. He is the author ofThe Postethnic Literary: Rereading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 (2014). He has co-edited a special issue on “American Literary Institutions around 1900” forCollege Literature (Fall 2024; with Sheila Liming and Alexander Starre) and several essay collections, includingKriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte: Genres – Medien – Techniken (2015); with Clemens Peck). His essays have appeared inNarrative andJournal of Literary Theory. He is currently writing a book about William Dean Howells and the late-nineteenth-century discourse of literary institutionalism.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation 1
- Continuation and the Novel: Open Context and the Problem of Closure 15
- Clotels: Bad Beginnings, Instructive Continuations 31
- “He Keeps Happening”: Character and Situation in W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance 61
- Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project Form in the Business Romance 83
- Genre-Bending Literary Fiction and the Pleasure of Immersion in Fictional Worlds 113
- The Eternal Draft: Authorial Revision and Philip Roth’s Construction of the Oeuvre 141
- Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man: Implications of Continuity in the Jewish American Short Story Collection 165
- Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age 197
- Of Masks and Men: Percival Everett’s James 221
- Eclogue: The End of History in Verse (Continued) 247
- Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Staged Future of Robots 267
- The Remake as Fetish Art: On Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Other Psychos 293
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation 1
- Continuation and the Novel: Open Context and the Problem of Closure 15
- Clotels: Bad Beginnings, Instructive Continuations 31
- “He Keeps Happening”: Character and Situation in W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance 61
- Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project Form in the Business Romance 83
- Genre-Bending Literary Fiction and the Pleasure of Immersion in Fictional Worlds 113
- The Eternal Draft: Authorial Revision and Philip Roth’s Construction of the Oeuvre 141
- Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man: Implications of Continuity in the Jewish American Short Story Collection 165
- Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age 197
- Of Masks and Men: Percival Everett’s James 221
- Eclogue: The End of History in Verse (Continued) 247
- Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Staged Future of Robots 267
- The Remake as Fetish Art: On Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Other Psychos 293
