{"product_id":"marxism-and-form-20thcentury-dialectical-theories-of-literature-9780691013114","title":"Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years  Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive  wide-ranging  and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno  Walter Benjamin  Herbert Marcuse  Ernst Bloch  Georg Lukcs  and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was  at the time  largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Through penetrating readings of each theorist  Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous in.uence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making--in particular  how cultural artifacts distort  repress  or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form.  Jamesons presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism.  One year after Marxism and Form  Princeton published Jamesons The Prison-House of Language (1972)  which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jamesons main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666208055349,"sku":"ByrdShop_069101311X","price":47.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691013114.jpg?v=1782423301","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/marxism-and-form-20thcentury-dialectical-theories-of-literature-9780691013114","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}