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Allegory and Ideology by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works 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 inevita ...Show more
Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the ...Show more
Raymond Chandler - The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the d ...Show more
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern e ...Show more
The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson
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Category: History
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 wh ...Show more
The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 ...Show more
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