Name: Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Poetics of Social Forms)
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Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9780860915379

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Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Poetics of Social Forms)

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Fredric Jameson

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Verso Books

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English

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Paperback

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9780860915379

Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Poetics of Social Forms)

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Fredric Jameson

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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) was an influential American literary critic and Marxist theorist, known for his analysis of contemporary culture and its relationship with late capitalism. He earned his PhD from Yale with a thesis on Sartre and taught at universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Duke. His methodological approach combined Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, addressing issues like postmodernism and cultural production in the globalized era. In 2008, he received the prestigious Holberg Prize for his outstanding contribution to the study of the relationships between social formations and cultural forms.

Among his most notable works are Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Theories of Postmodernity (1996), The Seeds of Time (2000), A Singular Modernity (2002), Archaeologies of the Future (2009), and The Realism and the Providential Novel (2006). The latter, published by the Circle of Fine Arts, examines narrative structures in Western literature, from Heliodorus to George Eliot, and suggests that happy endings are a literary rather than existential category. His work falls within the genre of critical essay and literary theory, and has left an indelible mark on contemporary cultural and literary studies.

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