Fredric Jameson: 82 books
Cultures of the Death Drive
Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein’s thought for understanding modernist literature...
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented...
Colonial Fantasies
Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1997
Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without...
The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties
Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1998
Logos, trademarks, national insignia, brand names, celebrity images, design patents, and advertising texts are vibrant signs in a consumer culture governed by a regime of intellectual property laws. In The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, professor of law and cultural anthropologist Rosemary...
Class Fictions
Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1994
Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbreaking work, Pamela Fox offers a far more complex theory of working-class identity, particularly as reflected in British novels of the late...
by Frank Lentricchia, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life—because...
Subalternity and Representation
Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it....
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1989
In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally,...
No Apocalypse, No Integration
Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)
What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in...
Against Normalization
Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2001
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however,...
by Donald M. Lowe, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices—how we work, what we buy and consume—Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
Criticism in the Borderlands
Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
The...