Inventions of a Present
The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization
$53.06
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2024
Summary
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which try—and sometimes manage—to awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual experience, revealing a relationship betwe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804292402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804292400 |
| Author: | Fredric Jameson |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 427g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 153mm x 234mm |
Critics Review
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 *
Fredric Jameson
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.
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