Inventions of a Present

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.

• Introduction1. Allegories of the Hunter2. Limits of the Gringo Novel3. Form-Problems in Henry James4. Language and Conspiracy in Delillo and Yurick5. The Autonomous Work of Art: Utopian Plot-Formation in The Wire6. Flashes of World War II7. Germany's Double Plots8. An Eastern Waiting Room9. Immortal Stalingrad10. The USSR that Wasn't11. Faith and Conspiracy in Japan12. History as a Family Novel13. The Religions of Dystopia14. Fear and Loathing in Globalization15. The Novel and the Supermarket16. Temporalities of the Sea17. A Businessman in Love18. The Failure of Success19. Days of the MessiahIndex

Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.