Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jam

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The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

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A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which try—and sometimes manage—to awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual experience, revealing a relationship between the isolated subjectivity and a class or community. But even if this happens (which is rare), one must go on to find traces of collective praxis hidden away within the awakened feeling of inter-connection. And since it is in the sense of the nation and nationality that collectivity is most often expressed, there is an urgent need to disengage the possibilities of genuine action within these areas.This sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politics of North American literature to the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the Soviet Union and beyond. This is a voyage traversing the globe, discovering a common kinship between each literary destination in late capitalism itself.

Author Biography

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Allegories of the Hunter2. Limits of the Gringo Novel3. Form-Problems in Henry James4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire6. Flashes of World War II7. Germany's Double Plots8. An Eastern Waiting Room9. Immortal Stalingrad10. The USSR that Wasn't11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan12. History as a Family Novel13. The Religions of Dystopia14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization15. The Novel and the Supermarket16. Temporalities of the Sea17. A Businessman in Love18. The Failure of Success19. Days of the MessiahIndex

Review

Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry EagletonExploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson's writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern. -- Perry AndersonJameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth. -- Angela Woodward * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

Details ISBN1804292400 Author Fredric Jameson Publisher Verso Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804292402 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-07 Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2024-05-07 UK Release Date 2024-05-07 Subtitle The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization Audience General DEWEY 808.3 Pages 272 AU Release Date 2024-09-02 ISBN-10 1804292400 We've got this

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