Inhaltspezifische Aktionen

Recent Publications (Selection)

  • Monographs

2019. An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America. Bielefeld: transcript. (For reviews, see here and here.) 

2008. Kulturelle Erinnerung und Trauma im zeitgenössischen afroamerikanischen Roman. Theoretische Grundlegung, Ausprägungsformen, Entwicklungstendenzen. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

 

  • Edited Volumes and Journal Issues

2020. Europe's Crises and Cultural Resources of Resilience: Conceptual Explorations and Literary Negotiations. Trier: WVT 2020. (with Imke Polland, Sandro Moraldo, and Ansgar Nünning)

2019. The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Critical Analyses. Trier: WVT (Series: WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium, Vol. 21) (with Ansgar Nünning)

2015. "Reframing the Modernist Short Story", special section in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Short Story in English 64, p. 21-187 (with Mathijs Duyck, Anne Levita, Christine Reynier & Bart van den Bossche).

2015. Emergent Forms of Life in Anglophone Literature: Conceptual Frameworks and Critical Analyses. Trier: WVT. (Reihe ELCH, Band 66, with Daniel Hartley & Ansgar Nünning.

2013. The Cultural Dynamics of Generic Change in Contemporary Fiction: Theoretical Frameworks, Genres, and Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT (Series: English Literary and Cultural History, Vol. 56, with Ansgar Nünning & Christine Schwanecke)

2011. A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Developments – Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT. (Series: WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium, Vol. 14). (with Ansgar Nünning)

 

  • Articles in journals and edited volumes 

2022. “Mimesis of Remembering.” In: Journal of Literary Theory 16.2 (with Dorothee Birke). https://doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2022-2023

2022. " ‘Not just as it was, but better, far better': Redemption und Resilience in Dave Eggersʼ Zeitoun." Comparatio 13.2: 297-312. 

2022. "Mixed-Genre Fiction.” Encyclopedia of American Fiction, 1980-2020. Ed. Stephen Burn, Patrick O’Donnell and Lesley Larkin. Wiley-Blackwell: 

2022. "Current Approaches to the American Short Story." In: Erik Redling & Oliver Scheiding (eds.), Handbook of the American Short Story. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 55-72.

2021. "The Value of Literature and the Role of the Reader in 21st Century Fiction: Listening to the Ghosts of George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo." In: Ansgar Nünning & Vera Nünning (eds.), The Value of Literature. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature Vol. 36. 277-295. 

2020. "Rassismus als Katalysator von Krisen: Krisennarrative, Krisenszenarien und kulturelles Gedächtnis in der US-amerikanischen Kultur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der 'Central Park Five'". In: Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift 70.3: 357-372.

2019. "Stories of Dangerous Life in the Post-Trauma Age: Toward a Cultural Narratology of Resilience." In: Astrid Erll & Roy Sommer (Hg.), Narrative in Culture. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. 15-36.

2019. "The Post-Civil-Rights Novel: Re-negotiating African American Identities, Racism, and Cultural Memory in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016) and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (2015)." In: M. Basseler & A. Nünning (eds.), The American Novel in the Twenty-first Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Critical Analyses. Trier: WVT 2019. 101-16. (with Isabel Kalous)

2019. "Lebens-Experimente und generisches Lernen: Mark Twains Autobiography als Lern-/Lehrstück für die Performativität von Genres." In: M. Basseler & A. Nünning (eds.), Fachdidaktik als Kulturwissenschaft: Konzepte – Perspektiven – Projekte. Trier: WVT. 113-126.

2018. "Short-Short Fiction" In: Paul Delaney & Adrian Hunter (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 147-59.

2017. "Literary Canons and the Dynamics of Generic Change." In: Philipp Löffler (ed.), Reading the Canon. Literary History in the 21st Century. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 71-101.

2017. "Narrative Empathy in George Saunders's Short Fiction." In: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff & Philip Coleman (eds.), Critical Perspectives on the Works of George Saunders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 153-72.

2015. "Legacies of Modernism: Robert Hayden’s 'Middle Passage' and Melvin B. Tolson’s 'Dark Symphony'" In:  René Dietrich, Clemens Spahr & Oliver Scheiding (eds.), A History of American Poetry. Trier: WVT. 301-318.

2015. "Emerging Forms of Life in Literary Fiction: From Narrative Techniques to Genres." In: M. Basseler, Daniel Hartley & Ansgar Nünning (Eds.), Emergent Forms of Life in Anglophone Literature: Conceptual Frameworks and Critical Analyses. Trier: WVT, 2015. 75-96.

2015. "A Normal Biography Reversed: The Temporalization of Life in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'". In: Journal of the Short Story in English 64 (Spring 2015). 105-17.

2015. "Cognitive Liminality: Short Stories as Epistemological Fiction." In: Jochen Achilles & Ina Bergmann (eds.), Liminality and the Short Story. London: Routledge. 77-91.

2013. "Literary Studies as a Form of 'Life Science': The Knowledge of Literature." In: Ansgar Nünning & Greta Olson (eds.), New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice. Trier: WVT. 189-212 (with Ansgar Nünning).

2009. "Literatur – Erfahrung – Lebenswissen. Perspektiven einer pragmatischen Literaturwissenschaft." In: Ottmar Ette & Wolfgang Asholt (Hg.), Literaturwissenschaft als Lebenswissenschaft. Programm – Projekte – Perspektiven. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. 205-222.

 

  • Reviews

2021. Jon Baskin, Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. Stanford: Stanford UP 2019. In: American Literary History Online Review, Series XXVI. https://static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/site/alh/document/ALH+Online+Review+Series+26/26basselerGH_copyright.pdf?node=13df5a2d88a9cea0b1b2&version=465652:ccbcb072b5302cff467a

2020. Ana Maria Fraile Marcos (ed.), Glocal Narratives of Resilience. London/New York: Routledge, 2020. European Journal of English Studies 24. 2. 192–196.

2016. Claudia Holler & Martin Klepper (eds.), Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.1. http://dgfa.de/claudia-holler-and-martin-klepper-eds-re-thinking-narrative-identity-amsterdam-philadelphia-john-benjamins-2013-209-pp/

2014. Christof Mauch & Sylvia Mayer (eds.), American Environments: Climate – Cultures – Catastrophes. Heidelberg: Winter. Amerikastudien/American Studies 59.2). (http://dgfa.de/christof-mauch-and-sylvia-mayer-eds-american-environments-climate-cultures-catastrophes-reviewed-by-michael-basseler/)

2013. Martin Klepper, The Discovery of Point of View:
 Observation and Narration in the American Novel 1790-1910. Heidelberg: Winter 2011. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 63.1: 161-65.

2012. "The Past, Present, and Future of African American Literary History: Kenneth W. Warren: What Was African American Literature? Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011.  &  Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward (eds.): The Cambridge History of African American Literature. Cambridge: CUP, 2011." In: Kult_online 31 (http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/wps/pgn/home/KULT_online/31-4/)