Periodizing Jameson - Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative

Informationen zum Autor PHILLIP E. WEGNER is Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. His previous books include Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002) and Life Between Two Deaths: U.S. Culture, 1989-2001 (2009). Klappentext For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. In Periodizing Jameson, Phillip E. Wegner builds upon 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 and the history of the contemporary American university in which it unfolds. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Phillip E. Wegner
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780810129818
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2981-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Flashpoints; Flashpoints (Northwestern Univ; Flashpoints; Flashpoints (Northwestern Univ
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies