Jameson and Literature The Novel, History, and Contemporary Read
This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson’s understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist. It contends that Jameson’s idiosyncratic engagements with the literary canon have had a major impact on his
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Jameson and Literature
Jarrad Cogle
Jameson and Literature The Novel, History, and Contemporary Reading Practices
Jarrad Cogle Melbourne, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-54823-0 ISBN 978-3-030-54824-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54824-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © CSA Images/Getty Images, Image ID: 152405256 This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Historical Contradictions: The Career, Critical Reception and Reading Practice of Fredric Jameson Major Contributions: Marxism, Symptomatic Reading and Postmodernism Jameson’s Longue Durée: Minor Works and Contemporary Approaches Reading Jameson Reading the Novel References Jameson and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Generic Boundaries, Historical Transformation and Affect Theory Realism, Marxism and the Canon Jameson’s Nineteenth-Century Canon: French Realism and Its Others Realism and the Problem of Genre: Melodrama, the Romance and Women’s Writing Realism and the Nineteenth Century: Transformation and Decoding The Antinomies of Realism, Everyday Experience and Narratives of Affect References
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Jameson and the High-Modernist Novel: Absence, Imperialism and Metacommentaries Usefully Ambiguous Modernism The Centre and the Periphery in Jameson’s High-Modernist Canon Metacommentary, Western Marxism and the Canonisation of High Modernism References
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Jameson and Post-war Literature: Postmodernism, Utopia and the Collective High Literature in Postmodernity Jameson and Genre Fiction: The Limits of Utopia Jameson and Contemporar
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