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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Frederic Jameson"”.
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Playful Labors: Narrative, Work and Digital Games
… I argue that god games possess elements of what Frederic Jameson calls ""an aesthetic of cognitive mapping."" Such an aesthetic seeks to meaningfully locate and orient individuals within the increasingly disorienting spaces of the postmodern late capitalism. I argue that the widespread success of …
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A comparative study of ideology and aesthetics in the novels of selected South African isiXhosa-language writers and Kenyan African authors in English
… ideological analysis of the Marxist theorist Frederic Jameson. It incorporates a strong emphasis on characterisation and rhetoric, drawing on Classical European and African oral tradition. In eschewing altogether the modernist and postmodernist European literary paradigms, it seeks to …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… Booth, Martha C. Nussbaum, Irving Howe, and Frederic Jameson.</p><p>In this study, I present textual analyses of four American social novels—Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in the Iron Mills,” Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and John Steinbeck's The …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
… Heidegger, Meyer Schapiro, Jacques Derrida, and Frederic Jameson about Van Gogh's A Pair of Boots creates an intertextual framework for examining the connection between Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and William Faulkner's Light in August. This examination demonstrates that Cormac McCarthy provides …
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Masculinity and the Postmodern in American Psycho and Fight Club
… its origins and contexts, through the work of Frederic Jameson and Francis Fukuyama, and its ideas are applied to the characters from both novels. Though Patrick Bateman, the protagonist in American Psycho, is unaware that he lives during the postmodern timeframe, he nevertheless manifests his …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… and cognitive mapping found in the works of Frederic Jameson and Ricardo Piglia. Chapters One and Two explore the presence of technological networks in crime narratives. In Chapter One, I study the appearance of cellular phones in Brazilian films arguing that the technology allegorizes the …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… and market capitalism. Marxist theorists such as Frederic Jameson and David Harvey would perhaps view this phenomenon as a confirmation of the ways in which late capitalism incapacitates forms of political descent by absorbing it within its machinations. Within this line of thinking, the way in …