A definitive collection of Jameson’s early essays

For the first time, this classic collection of Fredric Jameson’s theoretical essays is published in one volume. Most of these pieces were composed under a particular set of constraints – the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition within the bounds of literary criticism – thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text.

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.