The Jamesonian Unconscious

Download The Jamesonian Unconscious full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Jamesonian Unconscious ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Jamesonian Unconscious

Author : Clint Burnham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316138
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Jamesonian Unconscious by : Clint Burnham

Download or read book The Jamesonian Unconscious written by Clint Burnham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Fredric Jameson--the world's foremost Marxist critic--kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural ephemera, generational hype, and Cold War fallout of our post-post-contemporary landscape. In The Jamesonian Unconscious, a book as joyful as it is critical and insightful, Clint Burnham devises unexpected encounters between Jameson and alternative rock groups, new movies, and subcultures. At the same time, Burnham offers an extraordinary analysis of Jameson's work and career that refines and extends his most important themes. In an unusual biographical move, Burnham negotiates Jameson's major works--including Marxism and Form, The Political Unconscious, and Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism--by way of his own working-class, queer-ish, Gen-X background and sensibility. Thus Burnham's study draws upon an immense range of references familiar to the MTV generation, including Reservoir Dogs, theorists Slavoj Zizek and Pierre Bourdieu, The Satanic Verses, Language poetry, the collapse of state communism in Eastern Europe, and the indie band Killdozer. In the process, Burnham addresses such Jamesonian questions as how to imagine the future, the role of utopianism in capitalist culture, and the continuing relevance of Marxist theory. Through its redefinition of Jameson's work and compelling reading of the political present, The Jamesonian Unconscious defines the leading edge of Marxist theory. Written in a style by turns conversational, playful, and academic, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Marxism, critical theory, aesthetics, narratology, and cultural studies, as well as the wide circle of readers who have felt and understood Jameson's influence.

The Political Unconscious

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471575
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Political Unconscious by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book The Political Unconscious written by Fredric Jameson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today. Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative. Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.

The Political Unconscious of Architecture

Author : Nadir Lahiji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020685
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Political Unconscious of Architecture by : Nadir Lahiji

Download or read book The Political Unconscious of Architecture written by Nadir Lahiji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical - indeed, that everything is "in the last analysis" political'. Bringing together a team of leading scholars including Slavoj Zizek, Joan Ockman, Jane Rendell, and Kojin Karatani, this book critically examines the important contribution made by Jameson to the radical critique of architecture over this period, highlighting its continued importance to contemporary architecture discourse. Jameson's notion of the 'political unconscious' represents one of the most powerful notions in the link between aesthetics and politics in contemporary discourse. Taking this, along with other key concepts from Jameson, as the basis for its chapters, this anthology asks questions such as: Is architecture a place to stage 'class struggle'?, How can architecture act against the conditions that 'affirmatively' produce it? What does 'the critical', and 'the negative', mean in the discourse of architecture? and, How do we prevent architecture from participating in the reproduction of the cultural logic of late capitalism? This book breaks new ground in architectural criticism and offers insights into the interrelationships between politics, culture, space, and architecture and, in doing so, it acts as a counter-balast to the current trend in architectural research where a general aestheticization dominates the discourse.

Jameson, Althusser, Marx

Author : William C. Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jameson, Althusser, Marx by : William C. Dowling

Download or read book Jameson, Althusser, Marx written by William C. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anthropocene Unconscious

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839760494
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Anthropocene Unconscious by : Mark Bould

Download or read book The Anthropocene Unconscious written by Mark Bould and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found bubbling away everywhere in contemporary cultural production. Typically, discussions of how culture registers, figures and mediates climate change focus on 'climate fiction' or 'cli-fi', but The Anthropocene Unconscious is more interested in how the Anthropocene and especially anthropogenic climate destabilisation manifests in texts that are not overtly about climate change - that is, unconsciously. The Anthropocene, Mark Bould argues, constitutes the unconscious of 'the art and literature of our time'. Tracing the outlines of the Anthropocene unconscious in a range of film, television and literature - across a range of genres and with utter disregard for high-low culture distinctions - this playful and riveting book draws out some of the things that are repressed and obscured by the term 'the Anthropocene', including capital, class, imperialism, inequality, alienation, violence, commodification, patriarchy and racial formations. The Anthropocene Unconscious is about a kind of rewriting. It asks: what happens when we stop assuming that the text is not about the anthropogenic biosphere crises engulfing us? What if all the stories we tell are stories about the Anthropocene? About climate change?

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822310907
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism written by Fredric Jameson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

The Postcolonial Unconscious

Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499327
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Unconscious by : Neil Lazarus

Download or read book The Postcolonial Unconscious written by Neil Lazarus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, Southeast and East Asia, to reconsider them from a postcolonial perspective. Alongside this, he offers bold new readings of some of the most influential figures in the field: Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon. A tour de force of postcolonial studies, this book will set the agenda for the future, probing how the field has come to develop in the directions it has and why and how it can grow further.

Marxism and Form

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884500
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Marxism and Form by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Marxism and Form written by Fredric Jameson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Valences of the Dialectic

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789601231
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Valences of the Dialectic by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Valences of the Dialectic written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through conflicts arising from its inherent contradictions, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical analysis. Jameson brings a theoretical scrutiny to bear on the questions that have arisen in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate in terms of commodification and globalization, and with reference to thinkers such as Rousseau, Lukcs, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Althusser. Through rigorous, erudite examination, Valences of the Dialectic charts a movement toward the innovation of a "spatial" dialectic. Jameson presents a new synthesis of thought that revitalizes dialectical thinking for the twenty-first century.

Fredric Jameson: Live Theory

Author : Ian Buchanan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826491081
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fredric Jameson: Live Theory by : Ian Buchanan

Download or read book Fredric Jameson: Live Theory written by Ian Buchanan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of America's most important cultural theorists, Fredric Jameson has been at the forefront of the field of literary and cultural studies since the early 1970s. This book offers an introduction to the work of this important thinker. It provides an account of Jameson's important contributions to Critical Theory.

Fredric Jameson

Author : Adam Charles Roberts
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415215220
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fredric Jameson by : Adam Charles Roberts

Download or read book Fredric Jameson written by Adam Charles Roberts and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.

An American Utopia

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784784516
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An American Utopia by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book An American Utopia written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "An American Utopia" radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are-among other things-universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson's text is ideally placed to trigger a debate on the alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson's essay, the volume includes responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself. Many will be appalled at what they will encounter in these pages-there will be blood! But perhaps one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance.

Jameson on Jameson

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341093
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jameson on Jameson by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Jameson on Jameson written by Fredric Jameson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of interviews with Fredric Jameson over a 20 year period./div

The Modernist Papers

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783471
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Modernist Papers by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book The Modernist Papers written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

The Antinomies of Realism

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688176
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Antinomies of Realism by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book The Antinomies of Realism written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attempted solution to this conflict, as is the ever-more impoverished variety of commercial narratives – what today’s book reviewers dub “serious novels,” which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past. Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism’s emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history. In contemporary writing, other forms of representation – for which the term “postmodern” is too glib – have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell’s novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices. In a coda, Jameson explains how “realistic” narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.

The Prison-House of Language

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121431X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Prison-House of Language by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book The Prison-House of Language written by Fredric Jameson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.

Signatures of the Visible

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136760415
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Signatures of the Visible by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Signatures of the Visible written by Fredric Jameson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America‘s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Histori