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Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt

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Publikationen

1. Bücher / books

2021: (ed., with Manfred Berg). Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society. Bielefeld: Transcript
2015: (ed., with Winfried Fluck and Philipp Löffler). Reading Practices. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 31. Tübingen: Narr.
2013: (ed.) Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900. Heidelberg: Winter.
2010: (ed., with Bernd Engler). American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.
2009: Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. (reviews)
2001: Casual Silences: The Poetics of Minimal Realism from Raymond Carver and the New Yorker School to Bret Easton Ellis. Trier: WVT.

2. Zeitschriftenaufsätze / journal essays

2021: “'Sacred Calling' in Nineteenth-Century Authorship: Wordsworth, Emerson, Thackeray.” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 67.3-4: 645-83.
2021: "Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority." American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 9.2 (June): 150-176. (download)
2018: "Social Dimensions of the Turn to Genre: Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant" Post45, March 2018.
2017: "Knausgaard in America: Literary Prestige and Charismatic Trust." Critical Quarterly 59.3 (October): 55-69. (download)
2016: "Degrees of Public Relevance: Walter Scott and Toni Morrison." Modern Language Quarterly Special Issue: Scale and Value: New and Digital Approaches to Literary History. Ed. James F. English and Ted Underwood. 77.3 (September 2016): 369-393.
2015: "Shifting Meridians: US Authorship in World-Literary Space." American Literary History 27.4 (Winter): 768-787. (download)
2014: "Singularity and the Literary Market." New Literary History 45.1 (Winter 2014): 71-88.
2011: "'The Fall into Institutionality': Literary Culture in the Program Era." American Literary History 23.4 (Winter): 844-859. (download)
2008: "The Uses of Metaphor: Richard Rorty’s Literary Criticism and the Poetics of World-Making." New Literary History. Special Issue: Remembering Richard Rorty. 39.1 (Winter 2008): 145-63. (download)
2007: "Democracy’s 'Lawless Music': The Whitmanian Moment in the US Construction of Representative Literariness." New Literary History 38.2 (Spring 2007): 333-52. (download)
2007: "Aesthetic Specialists and Public Intellectuals: Ruskin, Emerson, and Contemporary Professionalism." Modern Language Quarterly 68.3 (September 2007). 417-434. (download)
2004: "Recent Realist Fiction and the Idea of Writing 'After Postmodernism.'" Amerikastudien/American Studies 49:1 (2004): 19-34. (download)
2003: "Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard and the Search for a Contemporary Shakespeare." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik LI:4. 355-370. (download)
2002: "Reconsidering Raymond Carver's 'Development': The Revisions of 'So Much Water So Close to Home." Contemporary Literature XLIII: 2 (Summer): 317-341. (download)
2001: "Raymond Carver's 'Epiphanic Moments.'" Style 35: 3 (Fall): 531-547. (download)
2000: (with Richard Shusterman). "The Pragmatist Aesthetics of Richard Shusterman: A Conversation." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. XLVIII: 1. 57-71.
1999: "A Neoclassical Dilemma in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Reflections on Art." The British Journal of Aesthetics. 39: 4. October. 330-349. (download)

3. Sammelbandbeiträge/ book chapters

2021: "Introduction: Authority and Trust in the United States." Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society. Eds. Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg. Bielefeld: Transcript. 9-36.
2021: "Shoppers, Worshippers, Culture Warriors: Reading and the Hermeneutics of Trust." Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society. Eds. Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg. Bielefeld: Transcript. 245-276.
2019: "Minimalism's Vanishing Subjects: Self-Evasion in T.S. Eliot, Lyn Hejinian, and Raymond Carver." Simplify, simplify [Festschrift für Bernd Engler] Würzburg: Schöningh. 43-55
2019: “Literaturgeschichte als Bildungsroman: Zur Funktion historischer Verortung im literarischen Feld.” Les usages de la temporalité dans les sciences sociales/Vom Umgang mit Temporalität in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Eds. Pierre Monnet, Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler. Bochum: Winkler Verlag. 211-22.
2018: “1890s Middlebrow: Sister Carrie as an Artist Novel.” Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Eds. Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Seibel, Klaus H. Schmidt. Heidelberg: Winter. 117-142.
2016: "The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective." Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: de Gruyter. 95-111.
2016: "T.S. Eliot." Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin: De Gruyter. 137-161.
2015: "Acquired Taste." Reading Practices. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Günter Leypoldt, Philipp Löffler. 31 Tübingen: Narr. 45-64.
2015: "Literature and the Economy of the Sacred." Religion and the Marketplace in the United States. Ed. Jan Stievermann et al. Oxford: Oxford UP. 145-164.
2014: "What Carrie Wants: Romantic Longing and Balzac's Upward Mobility Novel in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie." Towards a Post-Exceptionalist American Studies. REAL Yearbook of English and American Literature. Ed. Winfried Fluck and Donald Pease. 30 Tübingen: Narr. 149-178.
2014: "Die Produktion schwarzer Kultur aus praxeologischer Sicht." Praxeologie: Beiträge zur Interdisziplinären Reichweite praxistheoretischer Ansätze in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Ed. Friederike Elias et al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 129-145.
2014: "Cultural Sociology and American Studies." American Studies Today: New Research Agendas. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Erik Redling, Sabine Sielke, Hubert Zapf. Heidelberg: Winter. 107-122.
2013: "Specters of Feminization in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture." Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900. Heidelberg: Winter. 141-158.
2013: "Introduction: Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture." Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900. Heidelberg: Winter. 1-25.
2012: (with Lars Eckstein). "TS Eliot und das Transkulturelle Erhabene." Kulturen in Bewegung: Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis der Transkulturalität. Ed. Dorothee Kimmich, Schamma Schahadat. Bielefeld: Transcript. 261-278.
2011: "Don DeLillos Auratische Dinge." Warenästhetik: Neue Perspektiven auf Konsum, Kultur und Kunst. Ed. Heinz Drügh, Christian Metz, Björn Weyand. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. 225-247. (download)
2011: "Emerson and the Romantic Literary Field." Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture. Ed. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, and Johannes Voelz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 209-26.
2010: "Neo-Pragmatism and the Turn to Religion." The Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real. Ed. Ulla Haselstein, Andrew Gross, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Heidelberg: Winter. 233-49 (download)
2010: "Introduction: Cultural Icons, Charismatic Heroes, Representative Lives." American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Ed. Günter Leypoldt, Bernd Engler. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann. 5-28. (download)
2009: "The Transcendental Turn in Nineteenth-Century New England." A Companion to American Cultural History. Ed. Bernd Engler, and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT (download)
2007: "Beethoven als Ikone der Amerikanischen Spätromantik." Kulturelle Leitfiguren: Figurationen und Refigurationen. Ed. Bernd Engler, and Isabell Klaiber. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 265-294. (download)
2006: "T.S. Eliot and the Transcultural Sublime." Anglistentag 2006 Halle: Proceedings. Ed. Sabine Volk-Birke, Julia Lippert. Trier: WVT, 2007. 249-58.
2005: "Transcendentalism." Key Concepts in American Cultural History: From the Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century. Ed. Bernd Engler, and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT. 423-426.
2004: "Strukturalismus." Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis. Narr Studienbücher. Ed. Ralf Schneider. Tübingen, Narr. 23-39.
2003: "Literatur als Angebot nützlicher Metaphern: Richard Rortys Literarische Ethik." Literatur ohne Moral: Literaturwissenschaften und Ethik im Gespräch. Ed. Christof Mandry. Münster, LIT Verlag. 123-145.
2002: "Radical Literalism and Social Perfectionism in Alexander Campbell's Millennial Harbinger." Millennial Thought in America: Historical and Intellectual Contexts 1630-1860. Ed. Bernd Engler, Joerg O. Fichte, and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT. 325-354.
1998: "Concepts of History and Epistemological Skepticism in Susan Daitch's 'X=/Y.'" Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction. Ed. Bernd Engler, and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT. 391-410.