MARXISM AND FORM : Twentieth - Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
Language: English Publication details: New Jersey Princeton University Press 1974/01/01Edition: 1Description: 432ISBN:- 9780691013114
- 801.950904 JAM/MA
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801.95 TWE 20TH CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM | 801.95 WEB JOHN WEBSTER: A CRITICAL STUDY | 801.950904 CON CONTEMPORARY MARXIST LITERARY CRITICISM | 801.950904 JAM/MA MARXISM AND FORM : Twentieth - Century Dialectical Theories of Literature | 801.953 ONE/CR CRITICS ON JANE AUSTEN | 803 ABR/GL GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS | 803 BEC/LI LITERARY TERMS A DICTIONARY |
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 Luk cs, 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 influence. 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.
T.W. Adorno; or, historical tropes
Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic. I. Watler Benjamin; or, nostalgia
II. Marcuse and Schiller
III. Ernst Bloch and the future
The case for Georg Lukács
Sartre and history
Towards dialectical criticism.
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