In a seminar I teach on seriality and small forms, students usually begin the course a bit perplexed by seriality as a concept, but, by the end of the semester, they commonly report back that they can’t help but see seriality everywhere they look. In our age of so-called peak TV, cascading sequels and prequels in the Marvel and DC universes, and the never-ending stream of social media feeds, it is certainly not hard to find oneself inundated by chunks of culture that are decidedly serial in structure and presentation. From a scholarly perspective, viewing cultural objects as parts in a series is a particular choice, one step in a methodological process: as the theorist of popular seriality Frank Kelleter has noted, “One and the same text can be regarded as simultaneously serial and non-serial, depending on the perspective from which it is seen.” Clare Pettitt is clear about where...
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September 01 2023
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848
Clare Pettitt,
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848
(Oxford
: Oxford University Press
, 2020
).Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 392–394.
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Sean Franzel; Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848. Comparative Literature 1 September 2023; 75 (3): 392–394. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475484
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