Inventions of a Present

The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

AvFredric Jameson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which try-and sometimes manage-to awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual experience, revealing a relationship between the isolated subjectivity and a class or community. But even if this happens (which is rare), one must go on to find traces of collective praxis hidden away within the awakened feeling of inter-connection. And since it is in the sense of the nation and nationality that collectivity is most often expressed, there is an urgent need to disengage the possibilities of genuine action within these areas.This sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politics of North American literature to the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the Soviet Union and beyond. This is a voyage traversing the globe, discovering a common kinship between each literary destination in late capitalism itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-07
Mått:153 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:427 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781804292402

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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.

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Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.

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Introduction1. Allegories of the Hunter2. Limits of the Gringo Novel3. Form-Problems in Henry James4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire6. Flashes of World War II7. Germany's Double Plots8. An Eastern Waiting Room9. Immortal Stalingrad10. The USSR that Wasn't11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan12. History as a Family Novel13. The Religions of Dystopia14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization15. The Novel and the Supermarket16. Temporalities of the Sea17. A Businessman in Love18. The Failure of Success19. Days of the MessiahIndex