Marxism and form; twentieth-century dialectical theories of literature / by Frederic Jameson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1974Description: xix, 432 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0691062048
  • 069101311X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.95
LOC classification:
  • PN 98 .C6 J3 1974
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter One. T.W. Adorno; or, historical tropes --
Chapter Two. Versions of a Marxist hermeneutic: I. Walter Benjamin; or, nostalgia -- II. Marcuse and Schiller -- III. Ernst Bloch and the future --
Chapter Three. The case for George Lukács --
Chapter Four. Satre and history --
Chapter Five. Towards dialectical criticism.
Summary: "The novelty of Jameson's approach lies with his emphasis on form rather than mere content as the key to the dialectical relationship of a given literary or artistic work to the determinate social moment in which it has its ground. He pursues this critical insight in a series of brilliant interpretive essays on major figures of Western Marxism whose ultimate purpose is to reassimilate the fundamental problems of Hegelian philosophy and related aspects of phenomenology and existentialism to Marxist critical theory in general and thus prepare the theoretical basis for a dialectical criticism of literature. Not just a major contribution to the theory of literary criticism, this book is an intellectual event of the first order." -- From the book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-424) and index.

Chapter One. T.W. Adorno; or, historical tropes --

Chapter Two. Versions of a Marxist hermeneutic: I. Walter Benjamin; or, nostalgia -- II. Marcuse and Schiller -- III. Ernst Bloch and the future --

Chapter Three. The case for George Lukács --

Chapter Four. Satre and history --

Chapter Five. Towards dialectical criticism.

"The novelty of Jameson's approach lies with his emphasis on form rather than mere content as the key to the dialectical relationship of a given literary or artistic work to the determinate social moment in which it has its ground. He pursues this critical insight in a series of brilliant interpretive essays on major figures of Western Marxism whose ultimate purpose is to reassimilate the fundamental problems of Hegelian philosophy and related aspects of phenomenology and existentialism to Marxist critical theory in general and thus prepare the theoretical basis for a dialectical criticism of literature. Not just a major contribution to the theory of literary criticism, this book is an intellectual event of the first order." -- From the book jacket.

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