num_pages: 239
description: ( This is Volume 2 , Syntax of History ).quoted in part from the back " ' The Ideologies of Theory' is a two-volume work bringing together for the first time the theoretical essays that span Frederic Jameson's career as a critic. Most of them were composed under a particular set of the tension between literary criticism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition. The essays engage in both activities, thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text; they make its political ,psychoanalytic, ideological, philosophical, and social resonances audible, and demonstrate the attraction of what Lyotard has termed " the desire called Marx," especially its capacity to tie an individual existence or temporality to the larger narrative we call History....."
language: English
title: The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986, Volume 2: Syntax of History
titlecomplete: The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986, Volume 2: Syntax of History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr