Fredric Jameson The Project of Dialectical Criticism

by Tally Jr., Robert T.

• ISBN13: 9780745332109
• ISBN10: 0745332102
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-06-20
• Publisher: UCP

Summary

Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought.

In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism through his engagements with postmodernism and globalisation to his recent readings of Hegel, Marx and the valences of the dialectic.

The book is both a comprehensive critical guide to Jameson's theoretical project and itself a convincing argument for the power of dialectical criticism to understand the world today.

Author Biography

Robert T. Tally Jr. is an Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013), Spatiality (2013), Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011), Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009) and the editor of Geocritical Explorations (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Jameson as Educator
1. The Task of the Translator
2. Allegories of the Political
3. Theory and its Ideologies
4. A Cultural Dominant
5. Literary Cartography and Globalization
6. The Thing about Modernity
7. Other Spaces are Still Possible
8. Returns of the Dialectic
Conclusion: Unpacking Jameson's Library