In his new masterpiece of cultural analysis, Fredric Jameson offers an idiosyncratic examination of what might be called a provisional or disposable canon – what aesthetic history might look at as we
Antinomies of Realism is Jameson’s major study of the nineteenth-century realist novel from a comparative perspective, covering the major literary traditions of Western Europe and the United States. I
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both p
