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Fredric R. Jameson, Marxist theorist and professor of comparative literature at Duke University, was born in Cleveland in 1934. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught at Harvard, the University of California at San Diego, and Yale University before moving to Duke in 1985. He most toon meer famous work is Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, which won the Modern Language Association's Lowell Award. Jameson was among the first to associate a specific set of political and economic circumstances with the term postmodernism. His other books include Sartre: The Origin of a Style, The Seeds of Time, and The Cultural Turn. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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The Political Unconscious (1981) 616 exemplaren
The Prison-House of Language (1972) 242 exemplaren
Marxism and Form (1971) 239 exemplaren
The Antinomies Of Realism (2013) 131 exemplaren
Valences of the Dialectic (2009) 128 exemplaren
Brecht and Method (1998) 109 exemplaren
Signatures of the Visible (1990) 106 exemplaren
The Modernist Papers (2007) 90 exemplaren
The Seeds of Time (1994) 84 exemplaren
Syntax of History (1988) 79 exemplaren
Allegory and Ideology (2019) 78 exemplaren
The Benjamin Files (2020) 72 exemplaren
Situations of Theory (1988) 71 exemplaren
The Sixties, Without Apology (1984) — Redacteur — 34 exemplaren
Sartre: Origins of Style (1961) 16 exemplaren
Modernizm Ideolojisi (2008) 5 exemplaren
El postmodernismo revisado (2012) 4 exemplaren
Sartre After Sartre (1985) 3 exemplaren
Zamanin Tohumlari (2020) 2 exemplaren
Kültürel Dönemec (2016) 2 exemplaren
Mythen der Moderne. (2004) 2 exemplaren
Filmska kartiranja 1 exemplaar
ESTETICA GEOPOLITICA, LA (2014) 1 exemplaar
O Marxismo Tardio 1 exemplaar
Kapital'i Sahnelemek (2013) 1 exemplaar

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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (1984) — Medewerker — 223 exemplaren
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Lord Jim [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1996) — Medewerker — 154 exemplaren
Verso 2015 Mixtape — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

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Super theoretical and dense! But if you can forgive the overuse of German phrases with no English equivalent this serves as a really good primer to some very exciting sci-fi! I can't wait to read (or watch the movie verison of) Solaris!
 
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Lior.Zylberman | Apr 11, 2020 |
In Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality Fredric Jameson returns to his work on the detective novel, focusing this time on Chandler. As usual Jameson makes nuanced observations and posits very reasonable and well-argued points for their presence. Some basic readers may claim Jameson is claiming things Chandler never consciously intended which, while in some cases may be true, is moot in that reading is a dynamic partnership and both the writing and the reading are contextualized within different realities (era, location, social and cultural norms, etc) so Chandler consciously choosing something makes no difference to what it may represent about Chandler's time or about a reader's time.

For Chandler fans there is much to appreciate. Jameson grounds his observations with textual support. One may agree, wholly or in part, with his interpretations or disagree but one cannot say it isn't textually based. Whether discussing spatiality, particularity (Ford rather than car) or Chandler's social typography Jameson highlights aspects of the texts that may have, for most readers, been nothing more than setting the scene. yet setting a scene, like taking a photograph, is as much about choosing what is seen and what is not seen. Those choices were indeed Chandler's.

For literary theorists, whether Marxist or not, Jameson gives many new perspectives with which to look at the novels. Non-theorists will just dismiss with a wave of the hand and claim Chandler didn't mean it, which, as I stated, means nothing. Theorists and serious readers will find some agreement with Jameson or perhaps find other ways of explaining the themes and trends Chandler had running throughout his novels.

This is not a casual read but neither is it a particularly dense nor convoluted read. It will be accessible to most readers, particularly those who choose to engage rather than dismiss before even engaging. I would recommend this to both Chandler fans, with the caveat that this is not a basic overview of plots, and those interested in how literature (particularly popular literature) works and what it can say about the society that both produced and consumed it.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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pomo58 | 2 andere besprekingen | May 27, 2017 |
His writing has a remarkable resemblance to projectile vomiting.
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