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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Fredric Jameson"”.
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson are in many respects two of the most influential contemporary theorists. Bourdieu's comprehensive theoretical model, termed "genetic structuralism", is a fruitful alternative to traditionally dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. …
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Le marxisme et la question postmoderne au cours des années quatre-vingt : l'apport de Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey à l'étude des transformations culturelles et sociales du capitalisme avancé
… l’examen de trois auteurs — Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey — qui y ont contribué de manière significative. Afin de lever le voile de la confusion quant aux diverses significations attachées au champ lexical de « postmoderne », nous aurons recours au concept heuristique de la …
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Gestos posmodernos en la novela latinoamericana : los casos de Cristina Rivera Garza, Ana Maria Shua y Laura Restrepo.
… sobre el discurso esquizofrénico que desarrolla Fredric Jameson, las expresiones del concepto del poder de Michel Foucault y el pensamiento rizomático propuesto por Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Además, utilizamos las teorías de carnavalización de Mijail Bajtín para abordar la escena …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of westernization. The main question that the study raises is: what are the literary results of migration, cultural or …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… upon relevant theorists (e.g., Patricia Waugh, Fredric Jameson) to illustrate the various different ways Whedon has consciously constructed metafiction as an integral part of his most influential television series. Additionally, the project also endeavors to show how textual self-consciousness …
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
… regarding sign/symbol and simulacra and Fredric Jameson regarding media reality and simulacra. Using the three independent theories, the study looks at how postmodern society struggles in its acquisition of image enhancing cultural capital, in the conspicuous and vicarious consumption of …
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The Philosophy Of Aesthetic Bliss: A Marxist Reading Of Nabakov's Lolita
… cultural statement. Using the theories of Fredric Jameson, I will examine the novel in terms of what it has to say about social relations, uncovering the inescapable political agenda. Lolita is a Modernist novel further rooted in the tradition of Russian Symbolism, both movements lending it …
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Ζητήματα «Ποιητικής του Χρόνου» στον Κινηματογράφο του καπιταλιστικού ρεαλισμού – Η περίπτωση του Elia Suleiman
… ορισµένοι θεωρητικοί µε προεξάρχοντες τον Fredric Jameson και τον Mark Fisher, µπορεί να αλλάξει τη δοµή των κινηµατογραφικών αφήγησεων. Ενώ, ερευνάται και το ερώτηµα αν οι νέες πρακτικές, που έχουν ως στόχο να εκφράσουν αυτόν τον αποπροσανατολισµό, µπορούν να οργανωθούν σε ένα σύστηµα, …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
… and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism …
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National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
… theory and its issues (in particular the work of Fredric Jameson, Homi K. Bhabha, Francoise Lionnet, Reda Bensmaia, and Anne Donadey) to analyze the authors' works in question. The problems of women are symptomatic of those of the nation. Being subject to patriarchy, the two cannot be divided. …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
… left, including Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Rosalind Krauss and others, have attempted to make sense of both literary high modernism and the modernist avant-gardes. The study argues that in the period since the 1960s especially, the Marxian …
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Abstract realism : Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks.
… of 'non-anthropocentric strategies' (following Fredric Jameson) for constructing, staging and encountering artworks as 'non-relational' (following Francois Laruelle) 'totalities' (following Carl Einstein) within the cultural-economic-socio-political reality of'capitalist realism' (following Mark …
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Possibilities for architectural production under capitalism
… theory and capitalism by Manfredo Tafuri and Fredric Jameson. I then review the historical use, and the contemporary meanings, of the term "vernacular" in architectural discourse. This is done to rehabilitate the term, which has become so laden with historical meaning as to impair its …
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The problem of the poetic revolutionary
… Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies – covering the stylistic, structural, narratological, and scenographic – can work to boost or inhibit a text’s subversive power. The …
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Os dias são maus : o ensino religioso cristão em dias pós-modernos o desafio de fazer crer perante a cultura da incredulidade
… Jean - François Lyotard, Bauman Zygmunt and Fredric Jameson
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Parodija ir pastišas posovietinėje Juozo Erlicko prozoje /
… works of postmodern theorists (Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Simon Dentith, Rose A. Margaret, Gérard Genette, etc.). Since the titles of Erlickasʼ Knyga and History of Lithuania texts often overlap or are related to the titles of other literary works, the research investigated the nature of …
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… disruptions constantly remind, to paraphrase Fredric Jameson, that history is always perforated: 'History with holes' (1990, 130). I argue that it is through these cracks in the screen that the conservative underbelly of Australian nationalist narratives becomes increasingly visible. I have …
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Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial
… roots in the thinking of Robert Nozick and Fredric Jameson but have been rethought more recently by Bruce Robbins, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Seyla Benhabib. I read literature alongside documentaries and memorials to discover the way cultural texts model these methods of pushing back against …
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Taking Writing On-Line: The Intersections Of Rhetoric, Technology, And Community In The Composition Classroom
… term “community,” the “political unconscious” of Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida's notion of différance and dissemination, and Hawisher and Selfe's “rhetoric of technology.” It argues that these ideas and those of Susan Wells, especially her “rhetoric of intersubjectivity,” allow us to examine …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… cultural trends � such as those of Fredric Jameson and Jean-Francois Lyotard � are utilized so as to track an epistemological shift in both conceptions of the sublime, as well as the relationship between humanity and its environment. This shift, from viewing the natural world as a …
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