Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative - Couverture souple

Wegner, Phillip E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810129817 ISBN 13 : 9780810129818

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2014

Synopsis

For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. In Periodizing Jameson, Phillip E. Wegner builds upon Jameson’s unique dialectical method to demonstrate the value of Jameson’s tools—periodization, the fourfold hermeneutic, and the Greimasian semiotic square, among others—and to develop virtuoso readings of Jameson’s own work and the history of the contemporary American university in which it unfolds.

Wegner shows how Jameson’s work intervenes in particular social, cultural, and political situations, using his scholarship both to develop original explorations of nineteenth-century fiction, popular films, and other prominent theorists, and to examine the changing fortunes of theory itself. In this way, Periodizing Jameson casts new light on the potential of and challenges to humanist intellectual work in the present.

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À propos de l'auteur

PHILLIP E. WEGNER is Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. His previous books include Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002) and Life Between Two Deaths: U.S. Culture, 1989-2001 (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810129817
• ISBN 13: 9780810129818
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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