1. Make the Dialectic Great Again!

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Works in Chronological Order 9
4. Entry 11
5. Culture²: Entry 13
6. Form . Critique
7. 1. Make the Dialectic Great Again! 19
8. 2. Only a Matter of Form? 33
9. 3. Relate, Resist, Resurface 49
10. The Late Great Age of Literature
11. 4. The McGurl Era? 65
12. 5. Reading and Writing (at) the Site of the Social 81
13. Humans and Other Species
14. 6. Cloud-Reading with John Durham Peters’s The Marvelous Clouds (2015) 97
15. 7. Infinite Fungus 113
16. Structures of Feminist Feeling and Storytelling
17. 8. Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings’s Why Stories Matter (2011) 127
18. 9. Affect, the Popular, and Vogues of Feeling in Pop Culture (Studies) 143
19. Cruel Optimism
20. 10. Style under Stress 159
21. 11. Structures of the Impasse 189
22. Inter Disciplinary Anxieties
23. 12. A Connexionist Bartleby? 201
24. 13. Of Apes and Children 213
25. American Redescriptions
26. 14. Polarization and the Limits of Empathy 229
27. 15. Thick Redescription 249
28. Contributors 263