Marxism and Form : : 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature / / Fredric Jameson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Jameson, Fredric,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

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 Lukács, 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. T. W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes -- Chapter Two. Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic. -- Chapter Three. The Case for Georg Lukács -- Chapter Four. Sartre and History -- Chapter Five. Towards Dialectical Criticism -- Bibliography -- Index