Allegory and ideology / by Fredric Jameson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, Fredric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allegory.

Ideology in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2019.

Summary:

"This major new work by Fredric Jameson is not a book about 'method,' but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction. Eschewing the arid secularities of philosophy, Walter Benjamin once recommended the alternative of the rich figurality of an older theology; in that spirit we here return to the antiquated Ptolemaic systems of ancient allegory and its multiple levels (a proposal first sketched out in The Political Unconscious); it is tested against the epic complexities of the overtly allegorical works of Dante, Spenser and the Goethe of Faust II, as well as symphonic form in music, and the structure of the novel, postmodern as well as Third World: about which a notorious essay on National Allegory is here reprinted with a theoretical commentary; and an allegorical history of emotion is meanwhile rehearsed from its contemporary, geopolitical context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : allegory and ideology

Historical : the ladder of allegory

Psychological : emotional infrastructures

Psychoanalytic : Hamlet with Lacan

Musical : an allegorical symphony : Mahler's sixth

Political : national allegory

Poetic : Spenser and the crisis of personification

Epic : Dante and space

Dramatic : Faust and the messages of historicism

Literary : allegoresis in postmodernity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788730259

1788730259

OCLC:

1040191215