Fredric Jameson: 82 books
The Repeating Island
The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1997
In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, David Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between...
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted...
Parables for the Virtual
Movement, Affect, Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian...
Social Choreography
Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
Through the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that...
Utopia Limited
The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final flowering of the modern and the beginning of the...
Essay on Exoticism
An Aesthetics of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2002
The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of...
Belated Travelers
Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1994
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century...
Mutual Misunderstanding
Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1992
Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand...
Fables of Power
Aesopian Writing and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1991
In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. She shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the...
Figures of Resistance
Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1991
In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted...
The Exhaustion of Difference
The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy,...
Wedded to the Land?
Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study:...
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics
Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed...