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Allegory and Ideology

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Allegory and Ideology

By Fredric Jameson

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About the book

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather tha...Show more

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9781788730259

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Verso Books

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2019

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Allegory and Ideology

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Hardcover

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