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  • Inventions of A Present

    The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and moreA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation, and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • 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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  • The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I

    A Novel, Volume 1

    by Peter Weiss, Fredric Jameson, Robert Cohen ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented ... Read more

    $20.89 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

  • 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 Prison-House of Language

    A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

    Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

    by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, Michael Cramer, Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, Paul Coates, Pansy Duncan, Naoki Yamamoto0, Mercedes Vazquez1, Alvin K. Wong2, Dan Hassler-Forest3, Mike Wayne4, Fredric Jameson5 ...
    Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

    Machado de Assis

    by Roberto Schwarz, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by John Gledson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, which was ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Masculine/Feminine

    Practices of Difference(s)

    by Nelly Richard, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Silvia R. Tandeciarz, Alice A. Nelson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country’s transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD