Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative Volume 16

by Phillip E. Wegner

For a half century, the American intellectual Fredric Jameson has been a driving force in literary and cultural theory. In Periodizing Jameson, Phillip E. Wegner builds upon Jameson's unique dialectical method to demonstrate the value of Jameson's tools--periodization, the fourfold hermeneutic, and the Greimasian semiotic square, among others--and to develop virtuoso readings of Jameson's own work and the history of the contemporary American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129817
• ISBN13: 9780810129818
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"