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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory
Peter C. Herman
1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics
Evan Carton
2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War
Karen Raber
3. Historicizing Paul de Man’s Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium’s Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic
James J. Paxson
4. ‘Nostalgeria’ and ‘Structure, Sign, Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’
Lee Morrissey
5. Jean Baudrillard and May ’68: An Acoustic Archaeology
Andrea Loselle
6. Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘X’-Files: The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in ‘Invisible Bullets’ and ‘The Sources of Soviet Conduct’
Jonathan Gil Harris
7. New Historicizing the New Historicism; or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968?
Ivo Kamps
8. The End of Culture
Loren Glass
9. Literature, Incorporated: Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon
Marc Redfield
10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States
David R. Shumway
11. The Postcolonial Godfather
H. Aram Veeser
12. The Spectrality of the Sixties
Benjamin Bertram
13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits
Morris Dickstein
Contributors
Index
Sobre o autor
Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. He is the author and editor of many books, includingDay Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy, also published by SUNY Press.