Marxism and Form : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature / Fredric Jameson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, Fredric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectical materialism.

Marxist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 pages)

Edition:

First Princeton paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1016802525