Periodizing Jameson

For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. Phillip E. Wegner builds on Jameson's unique dialectical method to demonstrate the value of Jameson's tools - periodization, the fourfold hermeneutic, and the Greimasian semiotic square, among others - and to develop virtuoso readings of Jameson's own work.