The success and failure of Fredric Jameson
Subtitle: writing, the sublime, and the dialectic of critique
By: Steven Helmling.
Series: SUNY series on the sublime
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Jameson, Fredric; Criticism
Description: "Steven Helmling identifies major themes and traces both continuity and change in Jameson's engagement with the challenges presented by continental theory from the 1950s to the present. Instead of approaching Jameson's work by circumventing his notoriously difficult writing style, as many have chosen to do, Helmling takes at face value Jameson's insistence that the success and failure of critique are conditioned on how it is written.

Jameson insists on a "dialectical prose" that not merely analyzes but enacts or performs the contradictions of its subjects, resulting in an agitating, dramatic, and compelling style that questions the very success or failure of critique itself. Style is thus regarded both as a salient feature of the writing, and as a problem for critical practice in general."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.