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Fredric Jameson

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Biography

Name: Fredric Jameson
Birth Date: April 14, 1934
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Fredric Jameson
8,244 words, approx. 28 pages
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 Jameson's work was first appearing and when Marxism...


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Fredric Jameson Information
2,157 words, approx. 7 pages
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary cultural trends; he described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of...


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Utopian Studies
The Concept of Utopia in the Work of Fredric Jameson.
03/22/1998: 5,483 words, approx. 18 pages
Frederic Jameson proposes literary writings on utopia could not represent an ideal society because the failure of realizing Utopia is due to society's inability to conceive it. But writers of this genre have the ability to portray what an alternative lifestyle should and could...
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Utopian Studies
Jameson and Utopia.(Special Section on the Work of Fredric Jameson)
03/22/1998: 3,376 words, approx. 11 pages
Tony Morrison's Paradise exposes an agenda motivated by people seeking freedom and ends with the creation of dystopia. The struggle however is at the core of authentic utopian work, which Frederic Jameson's writes about in The Concept of Utopia in the Work of Fredric...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
7,717 words, approx. 26 pages
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 “softening” and capitulation of Jameson's Marxism for an ineffectual postmodern perspective.
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Critical Review by David Bromwich
4,985 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following review of The Ideologies of Theory, Bromwich finds contradictions in Jameson's “master narrative” concept and criticizes his unsubstantiated critical readings and “curiously messianic” exaltation of postmodernism.
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Critical Review by Wendy Kozol
2,389 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following excerpt, Kozol offers a positive assessment of Signatures of the Visible, despite finding several shortcomings in the work.
 


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