Name: Los Estudios Culturales (in Spanish)
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Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9789873847967

portada Los Estudios Culturales (in Spanish)

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Physical Book

Author

Fredric Jameson

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Godot Ediciones

Synopsis "Los Estudios Culturales (in Spanish)"

Ningún estudioso de la literatura puede igualar la versatilidad, la erudición enciclopédica, el brío imaginativo o la prodigiosa energía intelectual de Jameson. En una época en la que la crítica literaria, como tantas otras cosas, ha sufrido cierto declive, y en la que tristemente son poquísimas las figuras destacables en esta disciplina, Jameson se alza como alguien venido de un pasado cultural de mayor grandeza, un refugiado de la era de Shklovsky y Auerbach, Jakobson y Barthes, que sin embargo sigue siendo absolutamente contemporáneo. Terry Eagleton.

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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