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“... or they dismiss class as an analytical category on the grounds, refuted long ago by Fredric Jameson, that it’s inapplicable in a pre-capitalist world. Few historians have confronted the problem head on, tacitly adhering instead to the Weberian understanding of ancient economic life advocated by M.I. Finley, rather than the insights of ...”

“... but, it seems increasingly clear, the most important critical work of the last twenty years – Fredric Jameson observes that ‘the disappearance of the individual subject, along with its formal consequence, the increasing unavailability of the personal style, engender the well-nigh universal practice today of what may be called pastiche.’ This ...”

“... chance to be exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege. The world market, as Fredric Jameson has put it, is ‘a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system.’ In the ongoing process of capitalist globalisation, the category of the unemployed ...”

“... with Browning, her admiration for George Sand and her close friendship with the outspoken Anna Jameson, was an exceptionally broad-minded observer. In her eagerness to show the respectability of female marriages, Marcus perhaps doesn’t make enough of the tone of that liberal milieu, in which the unshockable ‘Oh, it is by no means uncommon’ would have ...”

“... what it is that the novel does that other types of long narrative fiction don’t do. For example, Fredric Jameson writes instructively about the demand for ‘happy endings’ created by the credit the reader so eagerly advances, even to fictions which announce themselves as in every other respect monuments to lost illusion. ...”

“... Cronin can only gesture toward perspectives that would distance his subject. He brings forward Fredric Jameson, quotes his definition of Post-Modernism from the 1982 New Left Review, and inserts into the definition both At Swim Two Birds and his own early recognition that with this book something drastic and irreparable had happened to ...”

“... in history as the most profitable testing ground for the dilemmas of situatedness’. Following Fredric Jameson, he holds out hope that history may yet get beyond aporias to reveal a genuine contradiction ‘with its lurking sense of imminent solution or mediation’. He suggests that we can get out of our epistemological impasse, in which local ...”

“... constraints. In his introduction to the Field Day pamphlets by Edward Said, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, he says: ‘Field Day’s analysis of the situation derives from the conviction that it is, above all, a colonial crisis.’ (Note that the conviction does not derive from the analysis.) Theory helps Deane to renovate the term ...”

“... passport in the process. Rodgers goes on to address the Marxist arguments of David Harvey and Fredric Jameson, which hold that postmodern cultural fragmentation is connected to the shift from the Fordist national economies of the first part of the 20th century to the post-Fordist global economy of the last part. In the Marxist view, the cultural ...”

“... is the march of the Weltgeist’, has lost its power? Even so unapologetically Marxist a critic as Fredric Jameson has recently admitted that ‘Adorno was a doubtful ally when there were still powerful and oppositional currents from which his temperamental and cantankerous quietism could distract the uncommitted reader. Now that for the moment those ...”

“... recognised as Post-Modernism’s ‘low art’ double, is in danger of becoming respectable. Fredric Jameson has even declared cyberpunk to be ‘the supreme literary expression, if not of Post-Modernism, then of late capitalism itself’.In all the acclaim it is a relief to come across a critic who dares to suggest that today’s grunge futurism ...”

“... misspent youth in Haywards Heath.‘The real function of the murder in the quiet village,’ Fredric Jameson observed in Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality, ‘is for order to be felt more strongly.’ Osman takes Jameson’s rule to another level. The murders aren’t merely a temporary disruption that ...”

“... by Cahiers du Cinéma, and the auteur school of criticism, which included Truffaut and Godard. As Fredric Jameson has observed, the auteur theory reflected its time, with the emergence of film-makers such as Antonioni, Fellini, Buñuel, Bergman, and several of the Cahiers critics themselves, and projected it back to a time when the director was not ...”

“... theory. Montrose does draw on theory but is closer than Greenblatt to Marxism in general and to Fredric Jameson in particular. What the authors have in common is their desire to see texts which commonly bear the label ‘English literature’ as part of some larger context – the context of Renaissance culture, or of representation and its ...”

“... character of ‘mind’. Theories of mind are obviously conditioned by their historical context: Fredric Jameson recently proposed a reading of Dennett’s Consciousness Explained as an allegory of late capitalism with its motifs of competition, decentralisation etc. Even more important, Dennett himself insists that tools, the externalised ...”