Fredric Jameson

A Critical Reader

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Edited by Douglas Kellner and Sean Homer

Palgrave

Due/Published June 2004, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0333982096

Jameson is one of the most important and audacious cultural critics writing today. His work impacts across a range of disciplines from literary and cultural studies to film, sociology and architecture. This new collection of previously unpublished critical essays covers the full corpus of Jameson's work: from his initial studies of Sartre and dialectical criticism, through his path-breaking work on the political unconscious, modernism and postmodernism, to his controversial essays on third world literature, space, architecture and Latin American studies.

Contents

Introduction--S. Homer & D. Kellner
Sartrean Origins--S. Homer
The American Luk‡cs? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought--C. Pawling
Fredric Jameson on 'Third-World Literature': a Qualified Defense--N. Lazarus
Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, architecture and Vancouver--C. Burnham
Stranded Economies--C.A. Gregory
The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery--M.E. Cevasco
Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately--S. Zizek
Talking Film with Fredric Jameson--M. Chanan
Postmodern Negative Dialectics--J. O'Kane
Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities--E. Leslie