Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
	Bibliography
Part I Synecdochic Procedures
2 Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia
	Some General Notes on Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories
	The FFS vs. Formalism—General Points of Criticism: Against Reductionism and the Avant-Garde
	Art Philosophy vs. Literary Scholarship (Criticism), Aesthetics vs. Poetics
	Poetics vs. Noetics
	Synthetic Unit(ie)s and Structure
	“Internal Form” vs. “External Form”: A Rehabilitation of Pictoriality
	Aesthetics of Experience vs. Sensation (perezhivanie vs. oshchushchenie)
	Personalität der FFS vs. persona non grata des Formalismus
	Invitation to a (Delayed) Reception
	Bibliography
3 The Leopard in the Temple: Svetozar Petrović and the Zagreb School
	Bibliography
4 An Analysis of Cultural Icons: A Synecdochic Procedure
	Discourses Relating to the Cultural Icon of the Bronze Horseman Monument
	The Mythopoetic Discourse
	The Biblical Discourse
	The Elegiac Discourse
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
5 The Points of No Return: The Avant-Garde and the Institutional Crisis
	Normativisation: Historisation as Production of Classics
	Cracks in Narrating National Literary Histories
	Bibliography
Part II Procedures of Accountability
6 Inter-esse: Narrative, Theory, and the Stakes of Literature
	Bibliography
7 Studying Literary Multilingualism, Revisiting National Philology: Post-Imperial East-Central European Literature as a Testing Ground
	Introduction
	Studying Multilingual Literature, Revisiting Philology
	World Literature and Literary Multilingualism: The Multilingual Local and the Translation Zone
	Translatio Imperii: Creating Language Difference and Zones of Indetermination in (Post-) Imperial East-Central Europe
	Translatio Imperii: Multilingual Modernity in Miroslav Krleža’s Post-Imperial Fiction
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
8 The Rhetoric of the Unsayable
	Bibliography
9 Reading the Cultural Trauma: Újvidék Raid
	Whose Cultural Trauma Is This?
	The Quicksand of Memory
	From Cultural Trauma to Transnational Memory
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part III Procedures of Materialism
10 The Economies of Theory and Resistance
	Bibliography
11 Procedures of Synthesis: Mannheim’s and Lukács’ Third Ways
	The Struggle for a Synthesis: Epistemology
	The Struggle for a Synthesis: Politics
	Bibliography
12 On the Heuristic Validity of Aesthetics: Economy, Media and Power in Arkadij and Boris Strugatskijs’ Monday Begins on Saturday (1965)
	Resistance and Aesthetics in Critical Theory, Deconstruction and Media Theory
		Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory
		Jacques Derrida’s Aesthetic Textual Practices of Deconstruction
		Marshall McLuhan: The Aesthetic Artefact as a “Fait Medial” and the Sustainability of All Theory
	Television and the End of Soviet Culture
		“Fairytales Become Reality”: (Radiophone) Word Magic and Science
		Magic Kopeks and the Transfer Roubles of the Soviet Planned Economy
		(Soviet) Consumerism and Television
		The Strugackijs’ “Universal Consumer” and Deleuze’s/Guattari’s “Desiring-machines”
	Bibliography
13 Justice and Guilt: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
	Bibliography
Part IV Mastering Procedures
14 Is Literary Theory Possible? Interpreting Crisis, Mastering Procedures
	Bibliography
15 Literature’s Theories
	Literary Umpires
	Henry James: Kinds as Theory
	Honoré de Balzac: Dotted Bodies
	From Theory to Paradox
	Bibliography
16 Literary Theory and the Return of the Lyric
	Bibliography
Part V Resisting Procedures
17 On Halt!
	“Up in the Gallery” by Franz Kafka
	Intervening
	Preliminary Reflections
	A Scene of Power and Resistance
	Das Halt
	Der Halt
	Halting the Halt!
	Coda: Hal(l)t!
	Bibliography
18 Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c
	Bibliography
19 The Stereoscopic Effects of Theory: Procedures of Contingency or Contingencies of Procedure? Notes on the Relationship Between Speculative Realism and Aleatory Materialism
	A Speculative (Pseudo)-Problem: The (In)compatibility of Stability and Contingency
	(Non-)Superstitious Miracles: (In)congruencies of Causal and Non-causal Explanation(s) of the World
	Aleatory Materialism: Incongruent Compatibility of Stability and Contingency
	Bibliography
Index