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Zusatztext “Jolles extended a formal curiosity and intellectual generosity that critics otherwise would only accord to works by established geniuses of the Western canon … Simple Forms speaks to us with surprising directness and insight.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “A fundamental contribution to the endless! contentious! productive dialogue between morphology and history. André Jolles! the interlocutor of Aby Warburg and Johan Huizinga! is still provoking us with his work. The long overdue translation of a classic.” —Carlo Ginzburg “ Simple Forms can be counted among the standard works of scholarship.” —Hans-Georg Gadamer “Jolles’s versatility was an inevitable result of his extraordinary receptivity and omnivorous interest in all aspects of the study of art and culture and of his talent for absorbing and processing things! and for combining disparate material.” —Johan Huizinga “It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles’s classic Simple Forms in English … a great book! always stimulating! and exhilarating in its speculative leaps! its shrewd insights! its wilder guesses.” —Fredric Jameson! from the Foreword Informationen zum Autor André Jolles (1874-1946) taught Art History, Archaeology, Cultural History and Netherlandic and Comparative Literature in Berlin, Ghent and Leipzig. Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity , The Modernist Papers , Archaeologies of the Future , Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic , The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital. Zusammenfassung A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time ...
