Allegory and Ideology

by Fredric Jameson

Book Overview

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form

Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them ) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788730437
• ISBN13: 9781788730433
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"