{"product_id":"inventions-of-a-present-the-novel-in-its-crisis-of-globalization-hardcover","title":"Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation, and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most interesting contemporary novels are those which try - and sometimes succeed - in awakening our sense of a collectivity behind individual experience; opening up a relationship between the isolated subjectivity and class or community. But even if this happens (rarely!), one must go on to find traces of collective praxis hidden away within the mere awakening of a feeling of multitude. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd, since it is in the sense of the nation and nationality that collectivity is most often expressed, it is urgent to disengage the possibilities of genuine action within these nationalisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politicality of North American literature to the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the old Soviet Union; from East Germany to Japan, Latin America and the Nordic countries. Like any such voyage, it is an arbitrary movement across the world of historical situations which, however, seeks to dramatize their common kinship in late capitalism itself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763908739360,"sku":"9781804292402","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/94af245dab32ed43da960cbacfc8e82f.webp?v=1780242017","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/inventions-of-a-present-the-novel-in-its-crisis-of-globalization-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}