Fredric Jameson Summary

Fredric Jameson is without dispute the leading Marxist critic and literary theorist of his generation in North America: a claim less vacuous today than it would have been twenty-five years ago, when J... Read more

In the following review of The Prison-House of Language, Donoghue commends Jameson's contribution to Marxist criticism, though expresses some reservations about his view of historical truth and... Read more

In the following positive review of Late Marxism, Ferber praises Jameson's analysis of Theodor Adorno and dialectical thought, but finds Jameson's prose often hampered by excessive quali... Read more

In the following review of Late Marxism, Rosen regards Jameson's book as “thorough and well-informed,” though finds his anticipation of a “Hegelian revival” unconvin... Read more

In the following excerpt, Kozol offers a positive assessment of Signatures of the Visible, despite finding several shortcomings in the work. In recent decades, interdisciplinary studies of the popu... Read more

In the following review of The Seeds of Time, Schwabsky commends Jameson's intellectual range and subject, but faults his writing as condescending and overly evasive. Fredric Jameson is inde... Read more

In the following review, Harpham provides an overview of Jameson's writings and intellectual development and offers an unfavorable assessment of The Seeds of Time, which he views as a “s... Read more

In the following excerpt, Gott discusses Jameson's analysis of postmodernity in The Cultural Turn. Everyone now recognises that we live in a postmodern world. In architecture and design, in ... Read more

In the following review, Berger criticizes The Cultures of Globalization, which he finds “one-sided” and reflective of insular “faculty-club culture.” The Cultures of Gl... Read more

In the following review, Naremore offers a positive assessment of Fables of Aggression, which he concludes “is the best piece of criticism we have” on Wyndham Lewis. “I do not ... Read more

In the following review, Punter offers a favorable assessment of The Political Unconscious, but takes issue with several aspects of the work. In The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson has produ... Read more

In the following unfavorable review of The Political Unconscious, Parrinder calls Jameson's writing pedantic and his literary analysis unconvincing. If I were to name a single work of comman... Read more