Periodizing Jameson : Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative / Phillip E. Wegner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wegner, Phillip E., 1964- author.

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

Flashpoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jameson, Fredric.

Dialectical materialism.

Marxian school of sociology.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Marxist criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 269 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory.In Periodizing Jameson, Phillip E.Wegner builds upon Jameson's unique dialectical method to demonstrate the value of Jameson's tools--periodization, the fourfold hermeneutic, and the Greimasian semiotic square, among others--and.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: To Name the System

Introduction: Betraying Jameson

Part I. Mediations

or, The Triumph of Theory

1. The Return of Narrative (1960s)

2. Theoretical Modernisms (1970s)

3. Symptomologies and Intimations of the Global (1980s-1990s)

Interlude: From the Symbolic to the Real

Part II. Untimely Modernisms

4. "The Point Is . . .": On the Four Conditions of Marxist Cultural Studies

5. Unfinished Business: On the Dialectic of the University in Late Capitalism

6. Other Modernisms: On the Desire Called Utopia

Afterword: Representing Jameson

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8101-6769-7

OCLC:

883932523