This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.
"Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction." - Terry Eagleton
A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism.
A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.
New in paperback: Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics
Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in... Læs mere
A major new interpretation of the concepts of modernism and modenirty
Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.
Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.
Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work
This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.