Inventions of a Present by Fredric Jameson (Hardback Book)

Name: Inventions of a Present by Fredric Jameson (Hardback Book)
Brand: Verso Books

Verso Books

The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more\nA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the na\u00EFve 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.\nThe most interesting contemporary novels are those which try \u0096 and sometimes succeed \u0096 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\n\nInventions of a Present\nThe Novel in its Crisis of Globalization\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracke;