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Author:   Phillip E. Wegner
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781517920524

ISBN 10:   1517920523
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Contents A Note on the Title Introduction: Reading Jameson at the Front CONVOLUTE J POETICS 1. A Partial Summing Up, or Fredric Jameson as Storyteller A. [Reading] B. [Allegoresis] C. [Periodization] D. [Mapping] E. [Binaries] F. [Modernity] G. [Praxis] H. [ . . . . . ] ETHICS 2. The Persistence of Moralizing Criticism, or Against Interpretation I. [Barthes] J. [Against Reading] K. [Excursus: Against Theory] L. [Against Culture] M. [Against Allegory] HERMENEUTICS 3. Beyond Good and Evil, or Toward Creative Reading N. [Ressentiment] O. [Creativity] P. [Levels] Q. [Form] R. [Generosity] S. [Production] HISTORICISM 4. How to Fix This Intolerable Present with the Naked Eye, or Periodizing the Contemporary T. [Contemporary] U. [Science Fiction] V. [Alternate History] COMPARATISM 5. Allegories of an Embattled Public, or The Red Thread of the Modern Swedish Crime Novel W. [Swedish Crime Novel] X. [Closure Effects] Y. [Parallax View] Z. [Generations] Acknowledgments Notes Index

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""Late Theory is a remarkably innovative work of cultural theory. Through a dialectical alchemy, Phillip E. Wegner actively thinks with Fredric Jameson, producing a stronger and more pliant critical substance that illuminates contemporary Marxist cultural theory and extends it into new areas of inquiry. There is probably no one alive today more suited to do this work than Wegner.""--Robert T. Tally Jr., author of The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies ""Ambitious in scope, original in form, and rigorous in execution, Phillip E. Wegner's Late Theory offers a clear account of Fredric Jameson's work, pairing closely attentive readings of Jameson's texts with Wegner's own more creative interpretations and applications of aspects of the arguments.""--Kathi Weeks, author of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

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Phillip E. Wegner is professor and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English at the University of Florida. He is author of several books, including Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative and Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (Minnesota, 2020).

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