Name: El realismo y la novela providencial (in Spanish)
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Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN: 9788486418588

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El realismo y la novela providencial (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fredric Jameson

Publisher

Editorial Círculo De Bellas Artes

Collection

Pensamiento

Year

2006

Language

Spanish

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

11 x 16 cm

ISBN

8486418585

ISBN13

9788486418588

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El realismo y la novela providencial (in Spanish)"

Este “trabajo de campo” de literatura comparada surgió, escribe Fredric Jameson, “de una experiencia sencilla: la insatisfacción con los desenlaces. ¿Cuántas veces nos hemos encontrado un texto –digamos, una novela o una película– cuyo desenlace parece el resultado de una elección arbitraria por parte del autor que nos deja profundamente descontentos?”.

Con esta premisa Jameson se lanza a uno de esos recorridos por la literatura occidental, tan apasionantes como vertiginosos, que le han hecho célebre: de Heliodoro, a Goethe, de Milton a Manzoni, de Kant a George Eliot, Jameson estudia las distintas relaciones entre inmanencia y trascendencia en la novelística de los últimos siglos. La obra se completa con un epílogo de Julián Jiménez Heffernan que contextualiza el estudio de Jameson al tiempo que profundiza en algunos de los temas que plantea el norteamericano.

Fredric Jameson

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Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) was an influential American literary critic and Marxist theorist, known for his analysis of contemporary culture and its relationship with late capitalism. He earned his PhD from Yale with a thesis on Sartre and taught at universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Duke. His methodological approach combined Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, addressing issues like postmodernism and cultural production in the globalized era. In 2008, he received the prestigious Holberg Prize for his outstanding contribution to the study of the relationships between social formations and cultural forms.

Among his most notable works are Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), Theories of Postmodernity (1996), The Seeds of Time (2000), A Singular Modernity (2002), Archaeologies of the Future (2009), and The Realism and the Providential Novel (2006). The latter, published by the Circle of Fine Arts, examines narrative structures in Western literature, from Heliodorus to George Eliot, and suggests that happy endings are a literary rather than existential category. His work falls within the genre of critical essay and literary theory, and has left an indelible mark on contemporary cultural and literary studies.

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