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FREDERIC JAMESON (1934 - )

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The history of thought is the history of its models.  (The Prison-House of Language)

Always historicise!  (The Political Unconscious)

CONFERENCES

• The Future of Utopia: Is Innovation Still Possible in Politics, Culture, Theory?  An Interdisciplinary Conference in Honour of Frederic Jameson, Department of Literature, Duke University, April 24-27, 2003

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Modernist Papers.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

  • The Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

  • The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998.  London: Verso, 1998.

  • Signatures of the Visible.  London: Routledge, 1992.

  • The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  One volume version pub.  London: Verso, 2008.

    • The Syntax of History.  Vol. 2.

    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1.

• Edited Works:

  • The Cultures of Globalization.  Ed. Jameson and Masao Miyoshi.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998. 

  • Sartre After Sartre.  Yale French Studies 68 (1985).

  • Aesthetics and Politics: Debates Between Bloch, Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno.  London: New Left, 1977.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Valences of the Dialectic.  London: Verso, 2009.

  • Archaeologies of the Future: the Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions.  London: Verso, 2005.

  • "Symptoms of Theory or Symptoms for Theory?"  Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 403-408.

  • A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present.  London: Verso, 2002.

  • Brecht and Method.  London: Verso, 1998.

  • "Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue."  The Cultures of Globalization.  Ed. Jameson and Masao Miyoshi.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.  54-77.

  • Seeds of Time.  Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine.  New York: Columbia UP, 1994.

    • Excerpt pub. as "The Antinomies of Postmodernity."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  233-254.

  • "Actually Existing Marxism."  Polygraph 6-7 (1993): 170-195.

    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  164-171.

    • Rpt. as "Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism."  Monthly Review (1996): .

  • The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.

    • Excerpt pub. as "Totality as Conspiracy."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  340-358.

  • Late Marxism: Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic.  London: Verso, 1990.
  • Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature.  By Jameson, Terry Eagleton, and Edward Said.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.

  • Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.  Durham: Duke UP, 1990.

  • "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism."  Social Text 15 (1986): 65-88.
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  315-339.
  • "Architecture and the Critique of Ideology."  Architecture Criticism Ideology.  Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.  51-87. 
    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  153-166. 
  • "Periodizing the Sixties."  The Sixties Without Apologies.  Ed. Sayres, et al.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.  178-209. 
    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  178-208.
  • "The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodernism Debate."  New German Critique 33 (1984): 53-65. 
    • Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader.  Ed. David Lodge.  London: Longman, 1988.  372-383. 
    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  103-114.
  • "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism."  New Left Review I/146 (1984): 53–92.
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  188-132.
  • "Postmodernism and Consumer Society."  The Anti-Aesthetic.  Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.
    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1960-1974.  [this essay combines material from the 2 essays above]

  • "Morality versus Ethical Substance; or, Aristotelian Marxism in Alasdair McIntyre."  Social Text 8 (1983): 151-154. 

    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  153-166.  181-185.

  • "Cognitive Mapping."  Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.  Conference, 1983.  Pub. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.  Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988.  347-360.

    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  277-287.

    • Poetics / Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom.  Ed. Amitava Kumar.  New York: New York UP, 1999.  155-167.

    • Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.  Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, et al.  Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1988.

  • The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially-Symbolic Act.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.

    • Chapter 1: "On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act."  17-102.

      • The Novel: an Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000.  Ed. Dorothy J. Hale.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  413-434.

      • Preface and Chapter 1.  Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1937-1959.

      • "On Interpretation as a Socially Symbolic Act."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  33-60.

      • Theory of the Novel: a Historical Approach.  Ed. Michael McKeon.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  400-413.

      • "From The Political Unconscious."  The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.

        1172-1188.

      • Twentieth Century Literary Theory: a Reader.  Ed. K. M. Newton.  London: Macmillan, 1988.  2nd Ed. 1997. 

      181-186.

  • Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1979.

    • Excerpt pub. as "National Allegory in Wyndham Lewis."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  308-314,

  • "Marxism and Historicism."  New Literary History 11 (1979): 41-73. 

    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  148-177.

  • "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture."  Social Text 1 (1979): 130-148.
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  123-148.
    • Signatures of the Visible.  London: Routledge, 1992.  9-34.
  • "The Symbolic Inference: or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis."  Critical Inquiry 4.3 (1978): 507-523. 
    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  137-153. 
  • "Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film."  College English 38 (1977): 843-859. 
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  288-307.
    • Signatures of the Visible.  London: Routledge, 1992.  35-54.
    • Screen Education 30 (1979): 75-92.
  • "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan: Marxism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Problem of the Subject."  Yale French Studies 55/56 (1977): 338-395. 
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  89-113.
    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  75-115.
  • "Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs Debate."  1977. 
    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  133-147. 
  • "Criticism in History."  Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and the Literary Tradition.  Ed. N. Rudich.  Palo Alto, CA: Ramparts Press, 1976.  31-50. 
    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  119-136.
    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  574-594.
  • "Figural Relativism, or the Poetics of Historiography."  Diacritics 6.1 (1976): 2-9.  
    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  153-166.
  • "The Ideology of the Text."  Salmagundi 31-32 (Fall 1975-Winter 1976): 204-246. 
    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  17-71.
  • "Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism."  Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association 8.1 (1975): 1-20. 
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  175-187. 
    • The Syntax of Theory.  Vol. 2 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  115-132.

  • "Review of V. Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language."  Style 8 (1974): 535-543.

  • The Prison-House of Language: a Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.
    • Excerpt pub. as "Roland Barthes and Structuralism."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  78-88.
  • Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971. 
    • "Towards Dialectical Criticism."  Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  61-70.

  • "Metacommentary."  PMLA 86.1 (1971): 9-18. 

    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  3-16.

  • "The Case for Georg Lukacs." Salmagundi 13 (1970): 3-35. 

    • Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.  160-205.

  • "Walter Benjamin; or, Nostalgia." Salmagundi 10-11 (1969-1970): 52-68. 
    • Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.  60-83.
  • "T. W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes."  Salmagundi 5 (1967): 3-43. 
    • Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  71-77.
    • Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.  3-59.
  • Sartre: the Origins of a Style.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1961.
• Selected Interviews:
  • Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism.  Ed. Marc Zimmerman.  Durham: Duke UP, 2007.
  • "Marxism and the Historicity of Theory."  New Literary History (1998): .   Jameson Reader.  Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  149-163.

On-Line:

• Archives:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • The End of Temporality (2003)
  • Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991):
    • Fu Jen Version
    • Irvine Version
    • New Left Version
    • Quigley Version
    • University of Virginia Version
  • "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1982):
    • University of Colorado Version
  • The Political Unconscious (1981)
    • On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act (Fletcher Version)
    • Excerpts (Stanford University Presidential Lectures)
  • Prisonhouse of Language (1972)
    • Excerpts (Stanford University Presidential Lectures)
  • Marxism and Form (1971):
    • Excerpts (Stanford University Presidential Lectures)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Special Issue on Jameson.  Critical Exchange 14 (Fall 1983).
  • Special Issue on Jameson.  Diacritics 12 (Fall 1982).
  • Kellner, Douglas, ed.  Postmodernism - Jameson - Critique.  Washington: Maisonneuve, 1989.
  • Kellner, Douglas, and Sean Homer, eds.  Fredric Jameson: a Critical Reader.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Special Issue on Jameson.  New Orleans Review (1984).
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Arac, Jonathan.  "Frederic Jameson and Marxism."  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  261-279.
  • Burnham, Clint.  The Jamesonian Unconscious: the Aesthetics of Marxist Theory.  Durham: Duke UP, 1995.

  • Dowling, William C.  Jameson, Althusser, Marx: an Introduction to the Political Unconscious.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

  • Eagleton, Terry.  "Frederic Jameson: the Politics of Style."  Diacritics (1982): . 
    • Against the Grain: Selected Essays 1975-1985.  London: Verso, 1986.  65-78.
  • Helmling, Steven, and Rob Wilson.  The Success and Failure of Frederic Jameson.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
  • Homer, Sean.  Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Irr, Caren, and Ian Buchanan.  On Jameson: from Postmodernism to Globalisation.  2005.
  • LaCapra, Dominick.  "Marxism in the Textual Maelstrom: Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious."  Rethinking Intellectual History.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.  1983.  234-267.
  • Larsen, Neil.  "Foreword: Frederic Jameson and the Fate of Dialectical Criticism."  Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  ix-xxiv.
  • Mohanty, Satya P.  "Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics and the need for an Adequate Epistemology."  Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.  93-115.
  • Roberts, Adam.  Frederic Jameson.  London: Routledge, 2000.
  • Weber, Samuel.  "Capitalising History: Notes on The Political Unconscious."  The Politics of Theory.  Ed. Francis barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, and Diana Loxley.  Colchester: U of Essex, 1983.  248-264.
  • West, Cornel.  "Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics."  Boundary 2: a Journal of Postmodern Literature 11.1-2 (1982-83): 177-200.   Rev. Ed. "Ethics and Action in Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics."  Postmodernism and Politics.  Ed. Jonathan Arac.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.  123-144. 
    • Rpt. in Keeping Faith.  165-191, 302-306. 
    • Rpt. as "Fredric Jameson's American Marxism."  The Cornel West Reader.  231-250.
  • White Hayden.  "Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative."  Diacritics 12 (1982): . 
    • Rpt. in The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  142-168.

On-Line:

• Bulson, Eric: The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson Times Literary Supplement July 27, 2008
• Cevasco, Maria Elisa: Review of Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future Situations 2.1 (2007)
• Clark, Jonathan: Fredric Jameson's Postmodern Marxism The Codgito 4 (1996)
• Fu Jen: Frederic Jameson on Postmodernism
• Helmling, Steven: Jameson's Lacan Postmodern Culture 7.1 (1996): .
• Kellner, Douglas: Frederic Jameson
• McPheron, William: Fredric Jameson (Stanford Presidential Lectures)
• Moran, Caitlin: Duke U. Professor Receives $900,000 Holberg Prize Chronicle of Higher Education November 26, 2008
• Richter, Dick: Summary of Postmodernism
• Spencer, Lloyd: Frederic Jameson
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Fredric Jameson
• Yeghiayan, Eddie: Jameson: a Bibliography

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• Stanford Presidential Lectures: Fredric Jameson

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