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Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth. -- Angela Woodward * Los Angeles Review of Books * Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force. The best of Jameson's work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms. -- Benjamin Kunkel * London Review of Books * The most muscular of writers. * Times Literary Supplement * Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him. -- Colin MacCabe Jameson is probably the finest cultural critic in the world. There seems to be almost nothing he hasn't read, apart perhaps from the odd manual on pig-farming. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books * The publications of Jameson's articles and books are intellectual events, and he has that unique power to change the terms of the discussion. Theory, for Jameson, is not a way to distance himself from the text. Rather, it is theory that makes close textual interpretation possible, it is a mode of intellectual engagement that allows us to think about the dialectical relationship between the social, political and economic system and the text. * Times Literary Supplement * No literary scholar today can match Jameson's versatility, encyclopaedic erudition, imaginative brio or prodigious intellectual energy. In an age when literary criticism, like so much else, has suffered something of a downturn, with forlornly few outstanding figures in the field, Jameson looms like a holdover from a grander cultural epoch altogether, a refugee from the era of Shklovsky and Auerbach, Jakobson and Barthes, who is nonetheless absolutely contemporary. -- Terry Eagleton * New Left Review * Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does. -- Michael Wood, * London Review of Books * Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson's writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern. -- Perry Anderson

Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. -- Terry Eagleton Exploding like so many magnesium flares in the night sky, Fredric Jameson's writings have lit up the shrouded landscape of the postmodern. -- Perry Anderson Jameson has long been the most alluring American literary theorist, the only one to match the French in style and depth. -- Angela Woodward * Los Angeles Review of Books * Not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force. The best of Jameson's work has felt mind-blowing in the way of LSD or mushrooms. -- Benjamin Kunkel * London Review of Books * The most muscular of writers. * Times Literary Supplement * Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today. It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him. -- Colin MacCabe Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does. -- Michael Wood * London Review of Books *

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Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

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