The political unconscious : narrative as a socially symbolic act / Fredric Jameson.
Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a suppl...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
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1981.
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Table of Contents:
- On interpretation: literature as a socially symbolic act
- Magical narratives: on the dialectical use of genre criticism
- Realism and desire: Balzac and the problem of the subject
- Authentic ressentiment: generic discontinuities and ideologemes in the "experimental" novels of George Gissing
- Romance and reification: plot construction and ideological closure in Joseph Conrad
- Conclusion: The dialectic of Utopia and ideology.