The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Author:   Fredric Jameson
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
ISBN:  

9780801492228


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 August 1982
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Fredric Jameson
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801492228


ISBN 10:   080149222
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 August 1982
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act 2. Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism 3. Realism and Desire: Balzac and the Problem of the Subject 4. Authentic Ressentiment: Generic Discontinuities and Ideologemes in the ""Experimental"" Novels of George Gissing 5. Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Joseph Conrad 6. Conclusion: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology Index"

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<p> The Political Unconscious is a major work, and it should be read by historians, social scientists, and philosophers, as well as by literary scholars. -Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz


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Fredric Jameson is Professor of French at Yale University. He is author of Marxism and Form; The Prison-House of Language; and Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist.

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