Marxism and Form : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature Paperback / softback
by Fredric Jameson
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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 Lukacs, 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.
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- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:21/05/1974
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- ISBN:9780691013114
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:21/05/1974
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- ISBN:9780691013114