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Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fredric JamesonPublish date:1974-05-21Pages:454
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691013114ISBN-10:069101311XUPC:9780691013114Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, EuropeanSize:8.44 x 5.45 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCJH7RP5WE

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 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691013114ISBN-10:069101311XUPC:9780691013114Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, EuropeanSize:8.44 x 5.45 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCJH7RP5WE
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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