Philipp Löffler: Introduction: The practices of reading and the need for literary value I - Periodization, prestige, genre Clemens Spahr: Literary history and the problem of periodization II - Classics in the classroom Peter Paul Schnierer: Shakespeare's complete works: Canonization, completion, and collection in the 21st century III - In the name of diversity Franziska Schmid: Sherman Alexie and the uses of Native American literature IV - Lost figures, unlikely revivals, newcomers Stefanie Schäfer: John Neal and the problem of romanticism Günter Leypoldt: Singularity and the literary market Michael Basseler: Literary value and the question of generic change Johannes Völz: The uses of Emerson : transcendentalism, transnationalism, and the new Americanists Heiko Jakubzik: Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of detective fiction Sascha Pöhlmann: Canon fodder: Thomas Pynchon and the invention of postmodernism Katharina Gerund: African-American literature, canonization, and the Nobel Prize: German and American perspectives on Toni Morrison Caroline Lusin: Canon and carnival: Challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's "NW" Jan Rupp: New canons in the classroom: Teaching black British writing Dirk Wiemann: The great unread: The shadow canon of Indian writing in English Karin Höpker: 'Only in the chattel records' - Obscurity, historiography, and Frederick Douglass' "The heroic slave" Tim Sommer: Charismatic authorship: Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the nineteenth-century construction of romantic canonicity Sophie Spieler: No longer the 'text-book' of any generation: "Stover at Yale" and the non-canonical Kirsten Hertel: Highbrow - Middlebrow - Broadbrow? J. B. Priestley and cultural re-education in postwar Germany Ellen Redling: Canonizing youth in Mark Ravenhill's plays |
