Description
Book Synopsisaeo Provides a vital introduction to one of the centurya s major thinkers. aeo Reveals Jamesona s systematic vision of the contemporary world. aeo Represents the broad spectrum of Jamesona s work, including major seminal texts to lesser--known works.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
Part I: Paradigms of Interpretation:.
1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981).
2. Towards Dialectical Criticism (1971).
3. T.W. Adorno (1971).
4. Roland Barthes and Structuralism (1972).
5. Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan (1977).
Part II: Marxism and Culture: .
6. On Jargon (1977).
7. Base and Superstructure (1990).
8. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979).
9. Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview by Xudong Zhang (1998).
10. Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism.
Part III: Postmodernism:.
11. Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism (1975).
12. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Login of Late Capitalism (1984).
13. The Antinomies of Postmodernity (1994).
14. Culture and Finance Capital (1997).
Part IV: Exercises in Cognitive Mapping: .
15. Cognitive Mapping (1998).
16. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977).
17. National Allegory in Wyndham Lewis (1979).
18. Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism (1986).
19. Totality as Conspiracy (1992).
Part V: Utopia: .
20. Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian Thought (1976).
21. World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative (1975).
22. Utopian and Anti-Utopianism (1994).
Bibliography.
Index.
