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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
Published: 01 December 2015
... these lingering loyalties (or, for some, pestering influ- ences) continue to shape our supposedly post-theoretical discipline. Phillip Wegner’s Shockwaves of Possibility owes a great deal to the essays and books that Fredric Jameson has been writing on science fiction (SF) since the early 1970s. As Wegner...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in the postwar period. In the critical optic installed by Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism , these lines in the dirt would resolve into afterimages of “Heidegger’s ‘field-path’” (Jameson 1991 , 34–35), what Jameson identifies as “the final form of the image of nature in our own time” (34). From...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 September 2016
... precisely this critical reluctance to hear laughter as laughter. His early critics sought to secure his slippery oeuvre within well-established comic traditions such as satire, burlesque, and the grotesque. 2 In the 1990s, critics returned to West, this time armed with Fredric Jameson’s important...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 579–602.
Published: 01 September 2004
... at midcentury, nor even of the ‘‘late capitalism’’ Fredric Jameson first diagnosed in 1984;2 it’s the story of something like really, really late capitalism; capitalism in a fully globalized and triumphal form, the destructive speed and flexibility of whose finan- cial instruments alone make Nixon’s lofting...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 855–858.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács, and Fredric Jameson. The book’s theoretical commitments bear special mention because they mark its relatively unique relationship to ongoing debates about historicism and literary form. Episodic Poetics is part of the resurgence of new scholarship on aesthetics, but Marxist...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of Paredes’s work from a growing effort to chart what Fredric Jameson has referred to as “the ‘uneven development’ of the ideology of modernism itself.”13 George Washing- The Anti-corrido of George Washington Gómez  115 ton Gómez offers an opportunity to consider the workings...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in literary science fiction and utopian thought in the face of the Anthropocene, and I explore the ways in which the energizing potentiality of science fiction’s famous “utopian impulse” (see Jameson 2005 , especially 2–4) might yet be recovered out of a world-historical system whose coordinates now seem...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... However, both novels express unease with a 1980s society where wealth and productivity are not allied. Fredric Jameson marks this tendency as regressive and even delusional. He quotes Karl Marx, for example, who says, “It is an aspiration as pious as it is stupid to wish that exchange value would...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 440–441.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2000. x, 167 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95. Invoking the postmodern fascination with borders, Carlton Smith draws upon Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson, and Vizenor...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 441–442.
Published: 01 June 2001
... with borders, Carlton Smith draws upon Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson, and Vizenor to reexamine Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous thesis from the vantage point of the repressed Other of the frontier—an alternate history...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . 2013 . “ Gamification and Other Forms of Play .” boundary 2 40 , no. 2 : 113 – 44 . Jameson Fredric . 1981 . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . ———. 1991 . Postmodernism; or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... Though none of these poets may at first seem postmodern when compared to contemporaries such as Oppen or Creeley, Travisano’s careful delineation of postmodernist characteristics (derived in part from Fredric Jameson) dem...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 884–885.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... Though none of these poets may at first seem postmodern when compared to contemporaries such as Oppen or Creeley, Travisano’s careful delineation of postmodernist characteristics (derived in part from Fredric Jameson) dem...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2013
... : Editorial Justa . Huerta Jorge A. 1982 . Chicano Theater Themes and Forms . Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Jensen Richard J. Hammerback...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 598–600.
Published: 01 September 2020
... an easier time naming complicities than imagining alternatives. There have, of course, been scholars who have bucked against these conventions, detecting the positive tremors of utopia emanating from literary and cultural production. Fredric Jameson, for example, has elaborated an ethos of anti-anti...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the attempt to “stabilize relations between local and global forces and to situate the USA within a world market characterized by uneven geographical development” (24), a move that identifies in nineteenth-century texts aspects of the spatial disjunctions Fredric Jameson attributes to late capitalism...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 384–387.
Published: 01 June 2020
... perception. The chapter persuasively rethinks allegory to model such accounts. As this description begins to indicate, the book is an exceedingly rich one. I expect it to take its place among books like Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious (1981) and Hayden White’s The Content of the Form (1987...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2016
... “redemptioners,” usually referred to as indentured servants, figure in Fugitive Bonds as what Phan calls, taking a phrase from Fredric Jameson, a “vanishing mediator” (10) between the categories of slave and full citizen. Their “absent presence” in the Constitution made it possible for Dou- glass to argue...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the simulation that resemble or correspond in some way to the world they ostensibly represent (Data’s meticulous holographic set design) and the overall effect those elements have on shaping the experience of the player (Picard’s advocacy on behalf of the viewing experience of the audience). Fredric Jameson...
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