Fredric Jameson, Contributions to Books

Eddie Yeghiayan

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• "Three Methods in Sartre's Literary Criticism." In John K. Simon, ed., Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism, pp. 193-227. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

  Reprinted in Robert Wilcocks, ed., Critical Essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, pp. 97-119. Critical Essays on World Literature. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1988.

  "L'Inconscient politique." In Graham Falconer and Henri Metterand, eds., La Lecture sociocritique du texte romanesque, pp. 39-48. Discussion, pp. 271-273. Toronto: Stevens, Hakkert, 1975.

  "Criticism in History." In Norman Rudich, ed., Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and the Literary Tradition, pp. 31-50. Palo Alto, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1976.

  "Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost." In Francis Barker, et al, eds., Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 315-336. Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, July 1980. Colchester: Department of Literature, University of Essex, 1981.

  Reprinted in Francis Barker, ed., Literature, Politics and Theory, pp. 35-56. London: Methuen, 1986.

  "Ulysses in History." In W.J. McCormack and Alistair Stead, eds., James Joyce and Modern Literature, pp. 126-141. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

  Reprinted in Mary T. Reynolds, ed., James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 145-158. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

  "Pleasure: A Political Issue." In Formations of Pleasure, pp. 1-14. London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.

  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, pp. 111-125. Port Townsend, Wash.: Bay Press, 1983.

  Reprinted in Hal Foster, ed., Postmodern Culture. London: Pluto Press, 1985.

  "Flaubert's Libidinal Historicism: Trois Contes." In Naomi Schor and Henry F. Majewski, eds., Flaubert and Postmodernism, pp. 76-83. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

  "An Overview." In Tak-wai Wong and M.A. Abbas, eds., Rewriting Literary History, pp. 338-347. 2d International Conference on Literary Theory, University of Hong Kong, 1982. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1984.

  "Rimbaud and the Spatial Text." In Tak-wai Wong and M.A. Abbas, eds., Rewriting Literary History, pp. 66-93. 2d International Conference on Literary Theory, University of Hong Kong, 1982. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1984.

  "Periodizing the Sixties." In Sohyna Sayres, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz,and Fredric Jameson, eds., The 60s Without Apology, pp. 178-209. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. = Social Text (Spring-Summer 1984), 3(3) & 4(1).

  (with James H. Kavanagh.) "The Weakest Link: Marxism in Literary Studies." In Bertell Ollman and Edward Vernoff, eds., The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses, Vol. 11, pp. 1-16. New York: Praeger, 1984.

  "Architecture and the Critique of Ideology." In Joan Ockman, ed., Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, pp. 51-87. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.

  "Baudelaire as Modernist and Postmodernist: The Dissolution of the Referent and the Artificial `Sublime'." In Chaviva Hosek and Patricia Parker, eds., Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism, pp. 247-263. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.

  "The Realist Floor Plan." In Marshall Blonsky, ed., On Signs, pp. 373-383. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

  "Four Ways of Looking at a Fairy Tale." In The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire, and Everyday Life, pp. 16-24. New York: Artist's Space, 1986.

  "Hans Haacke and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." In Brian Wallis, ed., Hans Haacke, Unfinished Business, pp. 38-51. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986-87.

  "Reading without Interpretation: Postmodernism and the Video-Text." In Nigel Fabb, Derek Attridge, Alan Durant and Colin McCabe, eds. , The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature, pp. 199-223. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Methuen, 1987.

  Translated into French by V. Colonna, C. Liebow, L. Allard as "La Lecture sans l'interpretation: Le postmodernisme et le texte video." Extrait de Communications (November 1988), 48: 105-120.

  "World Literature in an Age of Multinational Capitalism." In Clayton Koelb and Virgil Lokke, eds., The Current in Criticism: Essays on the Present and Future in Literary Theory, pp. 139-158. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1987.

  "Cognitive Mapping." In Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, pp. 347-360. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

  "Modernism and Imperialism." Field Day Pamphlet, 14. Lawrence Hill Derry, Northern Ireland: Field Day Theater Company, 1988.

  Reprinted in Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, pp. 41-66. Introduction by Seamus Deane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

  Translated into French as "Modernisme et imperialisme." In Nationalisme, colonialisme, et littérature, pp. 43-67. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1994.

  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In E. Ann Kaplan, ed., Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices, pp. 13-29. London: Verso, 1988.

  "Postmodernism and Utopia." In Utopia Post Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography, January 29-March 27, 1988, pp. 11-32. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988.

  "Spatial Equivalents: Postmodern Architecture and the World System." In David Carroll, ed., The States of `Theory': History, Art, and Critical Discourse, pp. 125-148. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

  "Postmodernism and the Market." In Ralph Miliband, Leo Panitch and John Saville, eds., The Retreat of Intellectuals, pp. 95-110. Socialist Register 1990. London: Merlin Press, 1990.

  "The Film-Makers Panel: Introduction. Reply." In Duncan Petrie, ed., Screening Europe: Image and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema. Foreword by Colin MacCabe. BFI Working Papers, 1. London: BFI, 1992.

  "In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities." In Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, pp.vii-xx. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

  "Americans Abroad: Exogamy and Letters in Late Capitalism." In Steven M. Bell, Albert H. Le May and Leonard Orr, eds., Critical Theory, Cultural Politics, and Latin American Narrative, pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

  "The Synoptic Chandler." In Joan Copjec, ed., Shades of Noir, pp. London: Verso, 1993.

  "On Raymond Chandler." In J.K. Van Dover, ed., The Critical Responses to Raymond Chandler, pp. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

  See article "On Raymond Chandler" (1970).

  "Actually Existing Marxism." In Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, and Rebecca E. Karl for the Polygraph collective, eds., Marxism Beyond Marxism, pp. 14-54. Revised essays from the journal Polygraph. New York & London: Routledge, 1996.

  This essay was originally published in Polygraph (1993), 6-7:170-195, and considerably rewritten and expanded.

  See also the article "Five Theses of Actually Existing Marxism" (1996).

  "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In John Belton, ed., Movies and Mass Culture, pp. 185-202. Rutgers Depth of Field Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

  See article "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1984).

  "Longevity as Class Struggle." In George Slusser, Gary Westfahl and Eric S. Rabkin, eds., Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, pp. 24-42. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

  "A Message in the Bottle for a Different Future." In Frigga Haug and Michael Kratke, eds., Materialien zum Historisch-Kritischen Wörterbuch des Marxismus: für Wolfgang Fritz Haug zum 60. Geburtstag. Hamburg: Argument, 1996.

  The Brick and the Balloon: Architecture, Idealism and Land Speculation." In Cynthia C. Davidson, ed., Anyhow. New York: Anyone, 1998.

  Reprinted in Jameson's The Cultural Turn (1998).

Introductions, Forewords, Afterwords

• "Introduction" to Henri Arvon's Marxist Esthetics, pp. vii-xxiv. Helen R. Lane, tr. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973.

• "Reflections in Conclusion." Afterword. In Aesthetics and Politics: Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs, pp. 196-213. London: New Left Books, 1977; New York: Schocken, 1979. Verso, 1980.

• "Introduction" to Georg Lukacs' The Historical Novel, pp. 1-8. (Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, trs.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

• "Foreword" to Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, pp. vii-xxi. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, trs. Theory and History of Literature, 10. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.

• "Foreword" to Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music, pp. vii-xiv. Brian Massumi, tr. Theory and History of Literature, 16. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

• "Foreword" to Algirdas Julien Greimas' On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory, pp. vi-xxii. Paul J. Perron and Frank H. Collins, trs. Theory and History of Literature, 38. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

• "Afterword--Marxism and Postmodernism." In Douglas Kellner, ed., Postmodernism/Jameson, Critique, pp. 369-387. Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies. Washington, DC: Maisonneuve Press, 1989.

  Reprinted as "Marxism and Postmodernism." New Left Review (July-August 1989), 176: 31-45.
  Excerpts partially reprinted as "A Third Stage of Capitalism." Frontier (India) (February 10, 1990), 22(26).

  "Foreword" to Roberto Fernandez Retamar's Caliban and Other Essays, pp. vii-xii. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

  "Foreword" to Kang Liu and Xiaobing Tang, eds., Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique. Durham, NC:Duke University Press, 1993.

  Afterword. "Radicalizing Radical Shakespeare: The Permanent Revolution in Shakespeare Studies." In Ivo Kamps, ed., Materialist Shakespeare: A History, pp. 320-328.London & New York:Verso, 1995.