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  • After Year Zero

    On Postwar German Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Jameson's legendary lectures on German thought, brought together in one volume for the first time.In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heidegger, Habermas, Marcuse, Beuys, Enzensberger, Kluge, and Sloterdijk — Jameson weaves close readings of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The Years of Theory

    Lectures on Modern French Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series 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. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • The Political Unconscious

    Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    **"Monumental...Its learning and range of references are exceeded only be the imperial embrace of its complex argument, whose elaboration never imposes a sacrifice of clarity...Indispensable for all university and college libraries."—**ChoiceFredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious**, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context.** He asserts ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Marxism and Form

    20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkers—Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukács, and Sartre. Through penetrating readings, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Prison-House of Language

    A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Princeton Essays in Literature
    A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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  • An American Utopia

    Dual Power and the Universal Army

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I

    A Novel, Volume 1

    by Peter Weiss, Fredric Jameson, Robert Cohen ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Inventions of A Present

    The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and moreA 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China

    Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique

    by Fredric Jameson, Liu Kang, Liu Zaifu ...
    This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern.With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Initials of the Earth

    by Jesús Díaz, Fredric Jameson, Ambrosio Fornet ...
    Translated by Kathleen Ross ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesús Díaz. Born in Havana in 1941, Díaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mimesis, Expression, Construction

    Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with Aesthetic Theory, one of the most ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD