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Zusatztext "Much of the originality of Buchanan's account here lies in a chapter that maps Jameson's influences, in Sartre, Adorno, Barthes, and Brecht...The fascinating transcodings between this generation of theorist and Jameson's own is also the subject of a rare biographical interview. Such concluding interviews are a signature of Continuum's Live Theory series...The deeper lesson of Buchanan's book may well lie in mapping the continuities of this past to the globalizing present, as Jameson's tools for dismantling the engine of history lie dormant in debates that are so often as difficult and complex as the history of the twentieth century itself." —Darren Jorgensen, University of Western Australia, Symploke, Vol. 15.1/2, 2008 Informationen zum Autor Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2nd edition, 2018) and the founding editor of the international journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies . Zusammenfassung Widely regarded as one of America's most important cultural theorists, Fredric Jameson has been at the forefront of the field of literary and cultural studies since the early 1970s. This book offers an introduction to the work of this important thinker. It provides an account of Jameson's important contributions to Critical Theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: Towards a Dialectical Criticism Introduction 1. Metacommentary 2. Dialectical Criticism 3. The Political Unconscious PART II: Poetics of Social Forms Introduction 4. Brave New World Order? 5. Worlds Apart 6. One World After All Interview with Fredric Jameson
