TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jameson,Fredric
TI  - Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature 
SN  - 9780691013114
AV  - PN98.C6J3 
U1  - 801.9/5 22
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Dialectical materialism
KW  - Literary form
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Marxist criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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