Inventions of a Present - The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

List of contents

Introduction

1. Allegories of the Hunter
2. Limits of the Gringo Novel
3. Form-Problems in Henry James
4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick
5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire
6. Flashes of World War II
7. Germany’s Double Plots
8. An Eastern Waiting Room
9. Immortal Stalingrad
10. The USSR that Wasn’t
11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan
12. History as a Family Novel
13. The Religions of Dystopia
14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization
15. The Novel and the Supermarket
16. Temporalities of the Sea
17. A Businessman in Love
18. The Failure of Success
19. Days of the Messiah

Index

About the author

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.

Summary

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

Product details

• Authors: Fredric Jameson
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2024
• EAN: 9781804292402
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-240-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literature: history and criticism, Marxism & Communism, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides