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  • The Modernist Papers

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Allegory and Ideology

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Prison-House of Language

    A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Princeton Essays in Literature
    Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Years of Theory

    Lectures on Modern French Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Political Unconscious

    Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    **"Monumental...Its learning and range of references are exceeded only be the imperial embrace of its complex argument, whose elaboration never imposes a sacrifice of clarity...Indispensable for all university and college libraries."—**ChoiceFredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious**, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context.** He asserts ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature. ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Marxism and Form

    20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkers—Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukács, and Sartre. Through penetrating readings, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mimesis, Expression, Construction

    Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with Aesthetic Theory, one of the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Antinomies Of Realism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    The Postmodernism Essay

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Fredric Jameson’s essay “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”—originally published in 1984 and later included in his canonical 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism—made a radical intervention that continues to be as relevant as ever. In the essay, Jameson takes up contemporary art and architecture to theorize postmodernism as an expression of the disorientating ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • An American Utopia

    Dual Power and the Universal Army

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Benjamin Files

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work.The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What ... Read more

    $9.99 USD