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Fredric Jameson

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Adam Roberts provides an engaging introduction to Fredric Jameson, one of today's most significant cultural critics, whose work spans architecture, science fiction, cinema, and global capitalism. This accessible guide explores key texts such as The Political Unconscious and the influential essay Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism, underlining Jameson's impact on contemporary theory.
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Students and scholars of contemporary cultural theory, Marxist literary criticism, and those interested in the analysis of postmodernity and global capitalism will find this book essential.

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Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.

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Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Fredric Jameson's work targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, to cinema and global capitalism. Of this works, The Political Unconscious remains one of the most widely cited Marxist literary-theoretical texts, and a later article, 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', is amongst the most influential statements on the nature of postmodernity ever published.

Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.

Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

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amazon.com praises the book for its extensive discussion of Jameson's intellectual and historical contexts and recommends it as the ideal guide to the thinker. Choice describes it as a clear and useful companion to Jameson's oeuvre.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415215237

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 330g

Pages: 180

About the Author

Adam Roberts is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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