Inventions of a Present The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.
- Terry Eagleton,
Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson's writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern.
- Perry Anderson,
Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth.
- Angela Woodward, Los Angeles Review of Books
Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force. The best of Jameson's work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms.
- Benjamin Kunkel, London Review of Books
The most muscular of writers.
Times Literary Supplement
Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him.
- Colin MacCabe,
Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does.
- Michael Wood, London Review of Books
Jameson's latest book shows him at the height of his powers, carving out his novel alternative.
- Robert T. Tally Jr, Jacobin
Jameson's <i>Inventions of the Present</i> is highly ambitious in scope both thematically and regionally...<i>Inventions of a Present</i> does not provide a departure from Jameson's previous criticism but instead complements his older perspectives on First World/Third World literature and capitalism's role in the marketplace of ideas and stories.
- Ashley Yung, Oxford Political Review
A timely collection of pieces about the historical novel and reading them brings home [Jameson's] tremendous power of analysis.
The Prisma
Jameson's efforts to account for our globalized world were of course imperfect, incomplete, necessarily partial; and that partiality comes to be instructive in itself, hinting how we might proceed with a reading of the gaps.
- James David, Protean
This sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politics of North American literature to the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the Soviet Union and beyond. This is a voyage traversing the globe, discovering a common kinship between each literary destination in late capitalism itself.
1. Allegories of the Hunter
2. Limits of the Gringo Novel
3. Form-Problems in Henry James
4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick
5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire
6. Flashes of World War II
7. Germany's Double Plots
8. An Eastern Waiting Room
9. Immortal Stalingrad
10. The USSR that Wasn't
11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan
12. History as a Family Novel
13. The Religions of Dystopia
14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization
15. The Novel and the Supermarket
16. Temporalities of the Sea
17. A Businessman in Love
18. The Failure of Success
19. Days of the Messiah
Index