Theory Matters The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after
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Theory Mat ters The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Theory Matters
Martin Middeke • Christoph Reinfandt Editors
Theory Matters The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Editors Martin Middeke Chair of English Literature University of Augsburg Augsburg, Germany
Christoph Reinfandt Chair of English Literature University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
ISBN 978-1-137-47427-8 ISBN 978-1-137-47428-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47428-5
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A collaborative effort such as this is motivated by and needs to give recognition to various sources of encouragement and inspiration. Foremost, our thanks go to all the participants in this project and their dedication and fruitful cooperation throughout, and we also happily extend these thanks to the friendly staff and our generous and patient editors at Palgrave, Tomas René and Ben Doyle. We would like to acknowledge the insights we gained from many discussions with colleagues and students in Augsburg, Tübingen, Freiburg, and Johannesburg during conference panels, seminars, and master classes on literary and cultural theory. Finally, our warm thanks go to both teams of research staff at our home universities—Despina Repa, Julia Rössler, Elisabeth Schmitt, Christina Schönberger, Ricarda Sorg, Korbinian Stöckl, and, especially, Martin Riedelsheimer on the Augsburg side; Eva Maria Rettner, Bianca Klose, Nina Plachta, and Philipp Multhaupt on the Tübingen side—for their reliability, diligence, creativity, and
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