Fables of Aggression

Fables of Aggression
Title Fables of Aggression PDF eBook
Author Fredric Jameson
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 216
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1789604052

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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats-who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality, however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that, unlike those writers, he was essentially a political novelist. In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive language practice-utterly unlike any other English or American modernism-can be grasped as a political and symbolic act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis's style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis's works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time. Fables of Aggression draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis's incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.

Fables of Aggression

Fables of Aggression
Title Fables of Aggression PDF eBook
Author Fredric Jameson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 204
Release 1981
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520043985

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''The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality, however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that, unlike those writers, he was essentially a political novelist.In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive language practice--utterly unlike any other English or American modernism--can be grasped as a political and symbolic act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis's style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis's works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.Fables of Aggression draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis's incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.''--

Preposterous Violence

Preposterous Violence
Title Preposterous Violence PDF eBook
Author James B. Twitchell
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 360
Release 1989
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Twitchell begins the story in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the 'cheap thrills' available to mass audiences included bull-baiting and other blood sports, Punch-and-Judy shows, penny dreadfuls, and the illustrations of William Hogarth.

Time and Western Man

Time and Western Man
Title Time and Western Man PDF eBook
Author Wyndham Lewis
Publisher
Pages 618
Release 1928
Genre Art and literature
ISBN

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Star Wars: Myths & Fables

Star Wars: Myths & Fables
Title Star Wars: Myths & Fables PDF eBook
Author Lucasfilm Press
Publisher Disney Electronic Content
Pages 176
Release 2019-08-06
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 136805515X

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An American Utopia

An American Utopia
Title An American Utopia PDF eBook
Author Fredric Jameson
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 337
Release 2016-07-12
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1784784540

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Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson’s text is ideally placed to trigger a debate on the alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson’s essay, the volume includes responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself. Many will be appalled at what they will encounter in these pages—there will be blood! But perhaps one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance. Contributing are Kim Stanley Robinson, Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Frank Ruda, Alberto Toscano, Kathi Weeks, and Slavoj Žižek.

Fable: The Balverine Order

Fable: The Balverine Order
Title Fable: The Balverine Order PDF eBook
Author Peter David
Publisher Penguin
Pages 266
Release 2010-10-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101464666

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The days of magic and adventure are fading away, giving way to the age of industry and science. As the aged last Hero sits upon the throne of Albion, two friends-the privileged Thomas and his loyal servant, John- set out for the East in search of a legendary beast: the vicious, rarely-seen balverine. But their desire for adventure may be their ultimate undoing-because their quarry has just found them...