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Heike Schaefer is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a former Fulbright fellow, author of Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (2004), and has edited several books and special issues, including The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor (2019), Literary Knowledge Production and the Life Sciences (2017), and Network Theory and American Studies (2015).
The quest for immediacy in American literature and media culture; Part I.
Literary Immediacy and Photography: 1. The poet as 'exact reporter of the
essential law': Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetics in the context of early
photography; 2. 'To exalt the present and the real': Walt Whitman's
photographic poetry; 3. The politics of paying attention: the romantic
desire for immediacy; Part II. Literary Immediacy and the Cinema: 4.
'Living moving pictures': the thrills of early cinema; 5. 'Making a cinema
of it': seriality and presence in Gertrude Stein's early literary
portraits; 6. 'A novel like a documentary film': cinematic writing as
cultural critique in John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer; Part III.
Literary Immediacy and Television: 7. Being there: television's aesthetics
of immediacy; 8. For real? The critique of TV culture in the short fiction
of Robert Coover and David Foster Wallace; 9. "Nothing happens until it is
consumed': the remediation of TV images in Don DeLillo's novel Mao II; 10.
Fiction in the age of television; Still in pursuit; Bibliography.