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The Political Unconscious
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 801.95
EAN: 9780801492228
ISBN: 080149222X
Label: Cornell University Press
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1982-07
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Studio: Cornell University Press
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Rating:  - Paralogisms and enchainment. Literary productions...,
The Political Unconscious is a prodigious crical enterprise that unveils in a stimulating protean verve, the relationship between the political structure and the narrative enterprises of a variety of literary movements and/or individual authors. A model work of Marxist Criticism that sharpens our sensitivity and awareness in relation to the confines and intransigence of political schemas, for these affect and filter, construct and deflect the interpretation of artistic ouvres, while also creating ... Read More
Rating:  - Jungian Mysticism Disguised as Marxist Criticism
In his untenable book of mysticism, Jameson proposes that works of literature express the collective political unconscious of the age in which they are written, and that they are thus complicitous with power. While he allows for some complexity in this relationship between hegemonic politics and aesthetic production-works of literature, for example, express the deep history of class struggle-he ultimately collapses these categories: dominant politics and literature are one in every age, collapsed ... Read More
Rating: - Not About Dreams!
This book is not about dreams, so if you want to know about dreams, you should get "The Dream Book" instead. I don't understand this book.
Rating:  - Radical Vision, Utopian Prospective
Jameson's groundbreaking literary criticism and sociological analysis underscore the release of the sublimated repressed desires in realist representation (realism) and orientates itself toward a relax of political unconscious.It mediates the symbolic narrative and its mirrored ideological interpellations. As a Marxist, he foresees the fuse of the super/infrastructure and a utopian sense of humanism that isolates from alienation and reification.
Rating: - Tour de force literary criticism
I read "The Political Unconscious" in college and was quite dazzled with it at the time. The book is quite difficult, and I approached it after reading another work of Marxist criticism, Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction," which contains a footnoted reference to Jameson. The key thing about Jameson's book is that he forgoes a formalistic close-reading approach to works of narrative literature in favor of a historicist, totalizing vision. After I read the book, ... Read More
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