Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2024). “Fluck and the Early American Novel.”. In , & Laura Bieger and Johannes Voelz (Trans.), Dialogues with Winfried Fluck: Essays and Responses on American Studies. (pp. 197–212). Tübingen: Narr Francke.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2023). Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003266945/boasian-verse-philipp-schweighauser

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2023). A Self-Made Slave: Cultural Techniques in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. In Austenfeld, Thomas;Zurbrügg, Aurélie (Ed.), Who Tells Your Story? (pp. 19–37). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33675/SPELL/202

Rapcsak, Balazs, Nixon, Mark, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2022). Beckett and Media. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145840

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2022). Angles of Immunity: Beckett’s Film. In Rapcsak, Balazs; Nixon, Mark; Schweighauser, Philipp (Ed.), Beckett and Media (pp. 123–139). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145840.00015

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2022). Utopie. In Friedrich, Thomas (ed.), Anarchismus Handbuch (pp. 1–15). Wiesbaden: Verlag Springer VS.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2021). Antifiction Fictions. Spec. Issue Fictionality of Early American Literature, Eds. Matthew Pethers and Thomas Koenigs, 56(3), 731–754.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2020). Review of Literature, American Style: The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic, by Ezra Tawil. American Literary History Online Review Series, 25, 1–3. Retrieved from https://static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/site/alh/document/ALH_Online_Review_Series_25/6_Schweighauser.pdf?node=dce958e72ed290897303&version=992802:3897d03d128d0d6af14c&preview=true

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2019). [Rev. of:] American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity, ed. by Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith. Anglia, 137(4), 703–707. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0067

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2019). [Review of:] Acoustic Entanglements: Sound and Aesthetic Practice by Sabine Kim. Anglia, 137(1), 194–197. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0020

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2019). Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples: Ruth Fulton Benedict’s Poetic and Ethnographic Styles. In Herrmann, Jasmin; Ingwersen, Moritz; Sonnenberg-Schrank, Björn; Tarapata, Olga Ludmila (ed.), Revisiting Style in Literary and Cultural Studies (pp. 193–205). Berlin: Peter Lang.

Festl, Michael G., & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). Faire du neuf, autrement: la poésie de Margaret Mead. Fabula LHT, 21. https://doi.org/10.58282/lht.2207

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). Sinclair Lewis and the Decline of ‘Liberalism’: Reading It Can’t Happen Here in the Age of Trump. Hermeneutische Blätter, 24(1), 118–131.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). Ways of Knowing: The Aesthetics of Boasian Poetry. Amerikastudien, 63(4), 541–556. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/45341159

Schweighauser, Philipp, Rippl, Gabriele, Chakkalakal, Silvy, & Reichel, A. Elisabeth. (2018). Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology. In Amerikastudien/American Studies (Vol. 63). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER GmbH. Retrieved from https://amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2018/4

Schweighauser, Philipp, Rippl, Gabriele, Reichel, A. Elisabeth, & Chakkalakal, Silvy. (2018). Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology. Amerikastudien, 63(4), 431–440.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). Text als Paradigma der Kulturwissenschaft. In Simon, Ralf (ed.), Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Poetik und Poetizität (pp. 445–459). Tübingen: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110410648-023

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2018). ‘Gut’: Becketts Verhandlungen von Macht in seinen Fernsehspielen für den Süddeutschen Rundfunk. In Festl, Michael G.; Schweighauser, Philipp (ed.), Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie (pp. 169–195). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.

Schweighauser, Philipp, & Festl, Michael G. (2018). Einleitung: Die erste Schwalbe. In Festl, Michael G.; Schweighauser, Philipp (ed.), Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie (pp. 9–17). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.

Reichel, Elisabeth A., & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2017). Folk Communities in Translation: Salvage Primitivism and Edward Sapir’s French-Canadian Folk Songs. In Etter, Lukas; Straub, Julia (ed.), American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political (pp. 61–83). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Francke Attempto.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2017). Playing Seriously with Genres: Sapir’s ‘Nootka’ Texts and Mead’s Balinese Anthropology. RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, 50, 107–121.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2017). Das Rauschen modernistischer Form: John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston und die Soundscapes der Moderne und frühen Postmoderne. In Gess, Nicola; Honold, Alexander (ed.), Handbuch Literatur & Musik (pp. 495–507). Tübingen: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301427-030

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2016). Beautiful Deceptions. European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2016). Some Reflections on the Place of Aesthetics and Politics in American Studies. RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, 49, 43–53.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2016). The Early American Novel and Sentimentalism. In Straub, Julia (ed.), Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies (pp. 213–233). Tübingen: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376739-013

Askin, Ridvan, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2015). Literature, Ethics, Morality : American Studies Perspectives. In Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. Retrieved from http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=spe-001:2015:32#4

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2015). Literary Acoustics. In Rippl, Gabriele (ed.), Handbook of Intermediality: Literature - Image - Sound - Music (pp. 475–493). Tübingen: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311075-027

Schweighauser, Philipp, & Askin, Ridvan. (2015). Introduction. In Askin, Ridvan; Schweighauser, Philipp (ed.), Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (pp. 11–22). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-583863

Askin, Ridvan, Ennis, Paul J., Hägler, Andreas, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). Aesthetics in the 21st Century. In Speculations. Brooklyn (N.Y.): Punctum Books.

Askin, Ridvan, Hägler, Andreas, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). Introduction: Aesthetics after the Speculative Turn. Speculations, (5), 6–38.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). Relations between Media. In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (pp. 424–427). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03611-3

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). Early American Studies Now: A Polemic from Literary Studies. Amerikastudien, 58(3), 465–487.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). Early American Studies Now: A Response to the Respondents. Amerikastudien, 58(3), 500–505.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). [Review of [Review of] Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (2013) by Philip F. Gura]. Amerikastudien, 59, 273–275.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). [Review of [Review of] Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America (2013) by Karen A. Weyler]. Amerikastudien, 59, 447–450.

Schweighauser, Philipp, Regenscheit, Marion, & Schmid, Jelscha. (2014). Vom Close Reading zum Social Reading : Lesetechniken im Zeitalter des digitalen Texts. Dichtung-digital, No. 44, 29.12.2014. Retrieved from http://www.dichtung-digital.de/en/journal/aktuelle-nummer/?postID=2457

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2014). The Persistence of Information Theory. In Arnold, Darrell P. (ed.), Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments (pp. 21–44). New York: Routledge.

Rippl, Gabriele, Schweighauser, Philipp, Kirss, Tiina, Sutrop, Margit, & Steffen, Therese. (2013). Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2013). [Review of [Review of] Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States (2012) by Edward Cahill]. Amerikastudien, 58, 305–308.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2013). Sympathy Control: Sentimental Politics and Early European Aesthetics. Anglia, 131(1), 35–51. Retrieved from http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/angl.2013.131.issue-1/anglia-2013-0003/anglia-2013-0003.xml?format=INT

Rippl, Gabriele, Steffen, Therese, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2013). Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma. In Rippl, Gabriele; Schweighauser, Philipp; Kirss, Tiina; Sutrop, Margit; Steffen, Therese (Ed.), Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma (pp. 3–18). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-01477-8/5

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2013). Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel’s Night. In Rippl, Gabriele; Schweighauser, Philipp; Kirss, Tiina; Sutrop, Margit; Steffen, Therese (Ed.), Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma (pp. 45–84). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2012). Book and Wax: Two Early American Media of Deception. In PhiN. Philologie im Netz: Beihefte. Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History (pp. 4–44). Paderborn: Institut für Romanistik Paderborn. Retrieved from http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5_pdf/PhiN_Beiheft5_Schweighauser.pdf

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2012, January 1). Der Narzisst, der keine Narzisse sein durfte. Rev. of J. Edgar, by Clint Eastwood. Basler Zeitung, pp. 43–44.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2011). Terror has exterminated all the sentiments of nature: American terror, the French Revolution, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn. In Austenfeld, Thomas; Daphinoff, Dimiter; Herlth, Jens (ed.), Terrorism and narrative practice (pp. 45–60). Zürich: LIT.

Schneck, Peter, & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2010). Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. London: Continuum.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2010). Information Theory. In Clarke, Bruce; Rossini, Manuela (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (pp. 145–156). London: Routledge.

Schweighauser, Philipp, & Schneck, Peter. (2010). Introduction : the American and the European DeLillo. In Schneck, Peter; Schweighauser, Philipp (ed.), Terrorism, media, and the ethics of fiction : transatlantic perspectives on Don DeLillo (pp. 1–15). New York: Continuum.

Schweighauser, Philipp, & Wisnicki, Adrian S. (2010). The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo’s Detective Plots. In errorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. errorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (pp. 158–170). New York: Continuum.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2009). Doubly Real: Game Studies and Literary Anthropology; or, Why We Play Games. Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 3(2), 115–132. https://doi.org/10.7557/23.6001

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2009). Don DeLillo, ‘Falling Man’. In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (3rd rev. ed., pp. 485–486). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. Retrieved from http://kll-aktuell.cedion.de/nxt/gateway.dll/kll/d/k0160900.xml/k0160900_050.xml?f=templates$fn=index.htm$vid=default$3.0

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2009). Don DeLillo, ‘Libra’. In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (3rd rev. ed., pp. 482–483). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. Retrieved from http://kll-aktuell.cedion.de/nxt/gateway.dll/kll/d/k0160900.xml/k0160900_020.xml?f=templates$fn=index.htm$q=%5Brank,500%3A%5Bdomain%3A%5Band%3A%5Bfield,body%3Adelillo,%20don%20LIbra%5D%5D%5D%5Bsum%3A%5Bfield,lemmatitle%3Adelillo,%20don%20LIbra%5D%5Bfield,

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2008). The Noises of Modernist Form: Dos Passos, Hurston, and the Soundscapes of Modernity. In Kelleter, Frank; Stein, Daniel (ed.), American Studies as Media Studies (pp. 47–55). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.

Bennett, Paula Bernat, Kilcup, Karen L., & Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007). Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. In Options for Teaching. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007, January 1). Alltäglicher Wahnsinn: Don DeLillo, Zeuge der postmodernen Paranoia. Baz Kultur Magazin, pp. 9.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007). [Review of [Review of] Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005) by Fredric Jameson]. Amerikastudien, 52, 586–588.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007). Literature in Transition: European Aesthetics and the Early American Novel. In Madsen, Deborah (ed.), American Aesthetics (pp. 29–45). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007). Resources for the Study of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: A Selective Guide. In Bennett, Paula; Kilcup, Karen L.; Schweighauser, Philipp (ed.), Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (pp. 315–351). New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2007). Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction. In Griffin, Michael J.; Moylan, Tom (ed.), Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (pp. 225–242). Oxford: Peter Lang.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2006). The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (University Press of Florida, ed.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2006). An Anthropologist at Work: Ruth Benedict’s Poetry. In Rehder, Robert; Vincent, Patrick (ed.), American Poetry: Whitman to the Present (pp. 113–125). Tübingen: Gunter Narr.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2006). White Noise and the Web. In Engles, Tim; Duvall, John N. (ed.), Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s White Noise (pp. 94–102). New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2006). Introduction. In The noises of American literature, 1890-1985 : toward a history of literary acoustics. The noises of American literature, 1890-1985 : toward a history of literary acoustics (pp. 1–26). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2005). The Desire for Unity and Its Failure: Re-Reading Henry Adams Through Michel Serres. In Abbas, Niran (ed.), Mapping Michel Serres (pp. 136–152). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/144810

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2004). Toward a History of Literary Acoustics: The Noises of American Literature, 1860-1980. In Weinstock, Horst (ed.), English and American Studies in German 2003 (pp. 144–146). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2004). Rauschende Kommunikationen und Kanalreiniger : Repräsentationen des Widerläufigen bei Howells, Toomer und Pynchon. In Huwiler, Elke; Wachter, Nicole (ed.), Integrationen des Widerläufigen (pp. 59–68). Münster: LIT.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2003). ‘Sound all around’: Sonic Mysticism and Acoustic Ecology in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Profils Américains, 16, 107–121.

Schweighauser, P. (2002). ‘You Must Make Less Noise in Here, Mister Schouler’: Acoustic Profiling in American Realism. Studies in American fiction, 30(1), 85–102. https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.2002.0002

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2002). The Soundscapes of American Realist Fiction. Philologie im Netz, 19, 55–78. Retrieved from http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin19/p19t3.htm

Schweighauser, Philipp. (2002). Concepts of Masculinity in The Wife’s Lament and Its Critical Literature. In Steffen, Therese (ed.), Masculinities - Maskulinitäten (pp. 177–185). Stuttgart: Metzler.

Schweighauser, P. (2000). ‘Love at First Sight, at Last Sight, at Ever and Ever Sight’: Scrutinizing Lolita’s Body. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 48(2), 158–167.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (1999). Discursive Killings: Intertextuality, Aestheticization, and Death in Nabokov’s Lolita. Amerikastudien, 44(2), 255–267.

Schweighauser, Philipp. (1998). Metafiction, Transcendence and Death in Nabokov’s Lolita. Nabokov studies, 5, 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1353/nab.2011.0035