![]() ![]() ![]() In his early work, Jameson introduced a number of important twentieth-century, European Marxist theorists to American audiences, beginning with his study of Jean-Paul Sartre’s style, and continuing with his Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House of Language (1972), which offered critical analyses of such theorists as Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse, along with the Frankfurt School, Russian Formalism, and French Structuralism. ![]() In a career that spans more than 60 years, Jameson has produced some 25 books and hundreds of essays in which he has demonstrated the versatility and power of Marxist criticism in analyzing and evaluating an enormous range of cultural phenomena, from literary texts to architecture, art history, cinema, economic formations, psychology, social theory, urban studies, and utopianism, to mention but a few. 1934) is the leading Marxist literary and cultural critic in the United States and, arguably, in the English-speaking world in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. ![]()
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