Books by Fredric Jameson

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work

A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism.

A collection of theoretical essays which were composed under a particular set of constraints - the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism - thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

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 froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarm, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty-"a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

Provides an introduction to one of the great Marxist thinkers of the 20th century.

This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.