Sebastian M. Herrmann is an American studies scholar at Leipzig University, Germany. His work is focused on the poetics of ('post-truth') politics, on popular culture, and on symbolic forms. His most recent monograph, currently forthcoming, focuses on the interdependence of data and literature in ninetheenth-century US culture.
Katja Kanzler is a professor of American literature at Universität Leipzig, Germany. Her work is focused on the intersectionalities of »race,« class, and gender in US-American literature and popular culture, on genres of popular culture past and present, and on the dynamics of narrativity and textuality in different genres and media.
Stefan Schubert researches and teaches at the Institute for American Studies at Universität Leipzig, Germany. His main interests include US popular culture, (post-)postmodernism, cultural politics, 19th-century literature, and questions of textuality and narrativity. His postdoctoral research project focuses on the emergence of privilege in late nineteenth-century US literature and culture.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Borderlands of Narrativity 9
Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics 25
The Data of Life and the Life of Data 41
The Potentialities of Data 57
Unnecessary Complications? 71
Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption Videogames 85
Detecting Liminality 99
"To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1" 113
Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar 129
The Poetics and Politics of Staring 143
"No Show Dissed Quite Like This One" 157
Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital 171
Home Front Autobiographies of the 'War on Terror' 187
Form and/in Modernity 203
Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons 217
Narrating Authorship 233
Endings and Sustainability 249
Contributors 263