Marxism and Form : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature /
Jameson, Fredric
Marxism and Form : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature / Fredric Jameson. - 1 online resource (432 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. T. W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes -- Chapter Two. Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic. -- Chapter Three. The Case for Georg Lukács -- Chapter Four. Sartre and History -- Chapter Five. Towards Dialectical Criticism -- Bibliography -- Index
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For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691013114 9781400884506
10.1515/9781400884506 doi
Dialectical materialism.
Literary form--History--20th century.
Marxist criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
PN98.C6J3
801.9/5
Marxism and Form : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature / Fredric Jameson. - 1 online resource (432 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. T. W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes -- Chapter Two. Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic. -- Chapter Three. The Case for Georg Lukács -- Chapter Four. Sartre and History -- Chapter Five. Towards Dialectical Criticism -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Jameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism. One year after Marxism and Form, Princeton published Jameson's The Prison-House of Language (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691013114 9781400884506
10.1515/9781400884506 doi
Dialectical materialism.
Literary form--History--20th century.
Marxist criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
PN98.C6J3
801.9/5