Jameson, Fredric (b. 1934) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...by Jameson Jameson, Fredric Sartre: The Origins of a Style . New Haven, 1961; 2d.ed., New York, 1984. Jameson, Fredric Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature . Princeton, N.J., 1971. Jameson, Fredric The Prison House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism . Princeton, N.J., 1972. Jameson, Fredric Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist . Berkeley, 1979. Jameson, Fredric The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca, N.Y., 1981. Jameson,...
Jameson, Fredric (b. 1934) Reference library
Douglas Kellner
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
.... New York: Guilford, 1991. Buchanan, Ian . Fredric Jameson: Live Theory . London and New York: Continuum, 2006. Burnham, Clint . The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. Dowling, William C. Jameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to “The Political Unconscious.” Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. Eagleton, Terry . “Jameson and Form.” New Left Review 59 (September–October 2009): 123–137. Homer, Sean . Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism . New York:...
Jameson, Fredric Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
..., Fredric ( 1934– ), American scholar and critic , born in Cleveland, Ohio, educated at Haverford College and Yale. Perhaps the most distinguished English-language Marxist literary theorist of the post-Second World War period, Jameson has taught at Yale, the University of California, and Duke University. His initial engagement was with Sartre and with French philosophy and literature, but he also confronted the work of Georg Lukács and the Russian Formalists ( see formalism ). His early books, Marxism and Form ( 1971 ) and The Prison-House of...
Jameson, Fredric (1934– ) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...( The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms ( 2015 )). Alongside these works Jameson has also published a series of exercises in dialectical virtuosity: The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit ( 2010 ), Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One ( 2011 ), and Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality ( 2016 ). Further Reading: I. Buchanan Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (2006). R. Tally Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism ...
Jameson, Fredric (b. 1934) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
..., Fredric ( b. 1934 ), American literary critic and cultural theorist . Jameson's contributions to contemporary cultural studies can be divided into four areas: Marxist theories of culture and ideology; synthesis of Marxism and poststructuralism; critical analysis of poststructuralists such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida ; and Postmodernism. Marxism and Form ( 1971 ) contains thorough critical accounts of key twentieth‐century Marxist theorists. Three aspects of this text adumbrate Jameson's later and more influential work: (1) his...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
..., Fredric ( 1934– ) , American Marxist cultural critic. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was educated at Haverford College and Yale University, where he completed his doctorate; he would later teach at Yale and Duke University. His doctorate, titled Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961), established Jean-Paul Sartre ’s literary work as a template for exploring to what degree an author’s work is a symptom of his or her political situation. This introduced his view that all cultural texts are historical allegories. In the next decade, his works critically...
Jameson, Fredric Ruff (1934–) Reference library
The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
..., Fredric Ruff ( 1934– ) Fredric Jameson was born on 14 April 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was awarded a BA from Haverford College in 1954, an MA from Yale in 1956, and his PhD in French from Yale in 1959. His dissertation was on “The Origins of Sartre’s Style.” Jameson began his teaching career at Harvard University as an instructor of French from 1959 to 1961, and was assistant professor from 1961 to 1967. In 1967 he accepted a position as professor of French and comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego. In 1976 he became a...
Fredric Jameson and Cultural Studies Reference library
Robert T. Tally
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
... Jameson and Cultural Studies Introduction Fredric Jameson is the leading Marxist literary and cultural critic not only in the United States but throughout the English-speaking world. Indeed, Jameson is arguably one of the leading literary critics and theorists in the world, as has been symbolically registered in his receipt of the Modern Language Association’s prestigious lifetime achievement award and of the Holberg International Memorial Prize, which is something of a Nobel Prize for philosophy, criticism, law, and theology and whose recent winners...
Fredric Jameson
Obscurity Reference library
Garner’s Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...thinking about its attributes becomes an adjunct to that, if it is unwilling to betray its object; while the most austere films necessarily draw their energy from the attempt to repress their own excess (rather than from the more thankless effort to discipline the viewer).” Fredric Jameson , Signatures of the Visible 1 ( 1992 ). • “If such a sublime cyborg would insinuate the future as post-Fordist subject, his palpably masochistic locations as ecstatic agent of the sublime superstate need to be decoded as the ‘now all-but-unreadable DNA’ of the fast...
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