Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

by Fredric Jameson

Book Overview

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Luk cs, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101311X
• ISBN13: 9780691013114
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Must for Marxism

If you are looking to begin reading in Marxist theory and cultural critique, you MUST begin with Jameson's magesterial "Marxism and Form." It moves amazingly through the entire Western Marxist tradition, and gives a very nice introduction into each thinker. The book argues throughout that Marxist cultural criticism has hitherto only focused on the content of cultural texts but has ignored the form. Therefore, a properly dialectical analysis MUST account for the form of these texts. Jameson then conludes by offering his theory of a dialectical analysis that synthesizes all the theorists he introduces with his own theory of form.