Jameson, Fredric

The political unconscious : narrative as a socially symbolic act / Fredric Jameson - Great Britain : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1981 - xiv, 296 p.

1. On interpretation: literature as a socially symbolic act
2. Magical narratives on the dialectical use of genre criticism
3. Realism and desire: balzac and the problem of the subject
4. Authentic ressentiment: generic discontinuities and ideologemens in the '' experimental" novels of george gissing
5. Romance and reification: plot construction and ideological closure in joseph conrad
6. Conclusion: the dialectic of utopia and ideology


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Narration (Rhetoric)
Criticism
Communism and literature
Hermeneutics
Fiction
Politics and literature

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