Michael Berube 
The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies 

The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary
debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the
role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and
reflect on its recuperation in the field.

* * Contains first-rate, original essays that analyze the role of
aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on
its recuperation in the field.

* Contributors are leading scholars, internationally based.

* Includes substantial introductory material by the editor.

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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Engaging the Aesthetic (Michael Berube).

1 The Role of Aesthetics in Cultural Studies (Rita Felski).

2 On Literature in Cultural Studies (John Frow).

3 Excessive Practices: Aesthetics, Erotica, and Cultural Studies
(Jane Juffer).

4 The Burden of Culture (Jonathan Sterne).

5 Cultural Studies and the Questions of Pleasure and Value
(David Shumway).

6 'I Give It a 94. It’s Got a Good Beat and You Can Dance to
It’: Valuing Popular Music (David Sanjek).

7 Cultural Studies and the New Belletrism (Barry Faulk).

8 Beauty on My Mind: Reading Literature in an Age of Cultural
Studies (Irene Kacandes).

9 Inventing Culture (Behind the Garage Door) (Steven Rubio).

10 The Cringe Factor (Laura Kipnis).

Index.

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Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992); Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996); and The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998).