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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Contributors 1.Introduction: Conceptualizations, Mediations, and Remediations of the American Weird Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) and Florian Zappe (University of Göttingen) Part One: Concept 2. A Doxa of the American Weird Dan O'Hara (Independent Scholar, UK) 3. The Oozy Set: Toward a Weird(ed) Taxonomy Johnny Murray (Independent Scholar, UK) 4. Validating Weird Fiction as an (Im)Possible Genre Anne-Maree Wicks (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) 5. Woke Weird and the Cultural Politics of Camp Transformation Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) 6. The Weird in/of Crisis, 1930/2010 Tim Lanzendörfer (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 7. After Weird: Harman, Deleuze, and the American "Thing" Daniel D. Fineman (Occidental College, USA) 8. Concerning A Deleuzean Weird: A Response to Dan Fineman Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA) Part Two: Medium 9. Get Out, Race and Formal Destiny (on Common Weirdness) Eugenie Brinkema (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 10. From a Heap of Broken Images Towards a Postcolonial Weird: Ana Lily Amirpour's Western Landscapes Maryam Aras (University of Bonn, Germany) 11. “It is in Our House Now”: Twin Peaks, Nostalgia, and David Lynch's Weird Spaces Oliver Moisich and Markus Wierschem (University of Paderborn, Germany) 12. Demolishing the Blues: Captain Beefheart as Modernist Outsider Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia) 13. Weird Visual Mythopoeia: On Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Florian Zappe (University of Göttingen, Germany) 14. Hidden Cultures and the Representation and Creation of Weird Reality in Alan Moore's Providence Alexander Greiffenstern (Independent Scholar, Germany) 15. Alien Beauty: The Glamour of the Eerie Fred Francis (Independent Scholar, UK) 16. Conspiracy Hermeneutics: The Secret World as Weird Tale Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University, UK) 17. Afterword: Weird in the Walls Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Index

About the Author :
Julius Greve is a lecturer and research associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany. He is the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018), and of numerous articles on McCarthy, Mark Z. Danielewski, François Laruelle, and speculative realism. Greve has co-edited America and the Musical Unconscious (2015), Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities (2017), “Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds” (2017), and Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (2019). He is currently working on a manuscript on the relation between modern poetics and ventriloquism. Florian Zappe is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He is the author of books on William S. Burroughs ('Control Machines' und 'Dispositive' - Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968, 2008) and Kathy Acker (Das Zwischen schreiben – Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker, 2013), as well as the co-editor of the essay collection Surveillance|Society|Culture (2020), and Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (2019). In addition to that, he has published widely on literary and visual culture. Currently, he is working on a book project on the cultural history of atheism in America.

Review :
It's about time that someone took on the task of defining the 'weird'; that deceptively throwaway term that defines so much of what is interesting about popular culture in the US. This excellent collection represents the best of current thinking on the topic.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350141216
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Concept and Medium
  • ISBN-10: 1350141216
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 272


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