The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism's emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history.
FREDRIC JAMESON is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.
Title: The Antinomies of Realism
Author: Jameson
ISBN: 9781781688175
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Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
Number of Pages: 432
Weight: 0.4401 kg
Fredric Jameson's pre-eminence, over the last generation, among critics writing in English would be hard to dispute ... it's hard to imagine any of his inheritors excelling him in sophistication. -- Benjamin Kunkel * London Review of Books *
Fredric Jameson is the most significant Marxist thinker in American culture. -- Cornel West
Fredric Jameson is a prodigiously energetic thinker, whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton
