Publications: Method and Approach


Literary-Cultural Study:

"The Rites of Assent: Rhetoric, Ritual, and the Ideology of American Consensus," in The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture, ed. Sam B. Girgus, 1980: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, pp. 5-45.

"Introduction to 'Criticism, Biography, and Popular Culture,'" Prospects, VII (1982), pp. 163-165.

Afterword to Ideology and Classic American Literature, 1986: Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, pp. 443-447 (with Myra Jehlen)

"Investigations of an Americanist," Journal of American History, LXXXVIII (1991), pp. 972-987.

"A Cross-Cultural Perspective," in Cohesion and Dissent in America, ed. Joseph Alkana and Carol Colatrella, 1994: State University of New York, pp. 3-30.

"Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature," Working Papers, ed. Winfried Fluck (Berlin, 1996)

"A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies," in Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, 1996: Routledge, pp. 247-256.

"Games of Chess: A Model of Literary and Cultural Studies," in Centuries Ends, Narrative Means, ed. Robert Newman, 1996: Stanford University Press, pp. 15-58, 319-329.

"Culture in a Faulknerian Context," in Faulkner and Cultural Context, ed. Donal Kartiganer and Ann J. Adadie, 1997: University of Mississippi Press, pp. 284-310

"The Winthrop Variation: A Model of American Identity," in Proceedings of the British Academy XCVII (1998), pp. 75-94.

"The Function of the Literary in a Time of Cultural Studies," in "Culture" and the Problem of Disciplines, ed. John Carlos Rowe, 1998: Columbia University Press, pp. 69-87.

"Rhetoric As Cultural Work: The Example of John Winthrop's 'Model of Christian Charity'," in The Cultural Work of Literature, ed. Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck, and Sabine Sielke, 2000: Heidelberg, Winter Verlag, pp. 15-32

"The Ritual of Consensus," in Popular Literature: American and Russian Experience in Cultural Myth-Making, ed. Tatiana Venediktova, 2003: University of Moscow Press, pp. 45-67

"The Myth of America," in After History, ed. Martin Prochazka, 2006: Charles University Press (Litteraria Pragensia, vol. 13), pp. 345-370

Literary History

"The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History," Critical Inquiry, XII (1986), pp. 631-653.

"America as Canon and Context: Literary History in a Time of Dissensus," American Literature, LVIII (1986), pp. 99-107.

Introduction to Reconstructing American Literary History, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch (Harvard English Studies, vol. 13), 1986: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. ix-xii.

"Rewriting the History of American Literature," Criterion, V, (1987), pp. 81-83.

"The Question of Literary History," Common Knowledge, IV (1995), pp. 1-8.

Introduction to "Problems in the Writing of American Literary History" (Symposium), American Literary History, 2002

"Problems in the Writing of American Literary History: The Example of Poetry and Ethnicity," ALH (American Literary History), XV (2003), pp. 1-4


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