Fredric R Jameson

Sartre: The Origins of a Style

The Seeds of Time

The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System

The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System

Sartre After Sartre

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist As Fascist

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist As Fascist

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

The Modernist Papers

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 fro...

The Antinomies of Realism

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...

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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 Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (Radical Thinkers)

Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the subje...

Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (Marxism and Culture)

Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought. In F...

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

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 suppl...

Representing Capital: A Reading Of Volume One

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle...

Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on th...

Fredric James

Fredric Jameson (born 14 April 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends.