The Name of Metacommentary: Fredric Jameson.

In this article, the author discusses about American cultural critic Fredric Jameson and his comparative analysis of competing interpretive methods, Topics discussed include Jameson's massive contributions to scholarship, his notion of metacommentary, and use of the word metacommentary in the books...

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Published in:PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America Vol. 139; no. 5; pp. 779 - 791
Main Author: Cole, Andrew
Format: Editorial
Published: Cambridge University Press Oct2024
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Summary:In this article, the author discusses about American cultural critic Fredric Jameson and his comparative analysis of competing interpretive methods, Topics discussed include Jameson's massive contributions to scholarship, his notion of metacommentary, and use of the word metacommentary in the books "The Political Unconscious" and "Marxism and Form." Also mentioned are topics such as transcoding, cognitive mapping, and the political unconscious approaches used by Jameson for literary criticism.