Fredric Jameson
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar mask but […] without any of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have momentarily borrowed, some healthy linguistic normality still exists. Pastiche is thus blank parody, a statue with blind eyeballs: it is to parody what that other interesting and historically original modern thing, the practice of a kind of blank irony, is to what Wayne Booth calls the ‘stable ironies’ of the 18th century." --Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1984) by Fredric Jameson "The postmodernisms have, in fact, been fascinated precisely by this whole “degraded” landscape of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and Reader's Digest, of advertising and motels, of the late show and the grade-B Hollywood film, of so-called paraliterature, with its airport paperback categories of the gothic and the romance, the popular biography, the murder mystery, and the science fiction or fantasy novel: materials they no longer simply “quote” as a Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but incorporate into their very substance." --Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1984) by Fredric Jameson |
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Fredric Jameson (born 14 April 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, and Marxism and Form.
See also
- Dialectic
- Dialectical materialism
- Hegel
- Literary realism
- Literary theory
- Marx
- Marxism
- Marxist theorists
- Modernism
- Political consciousness
- Postmodernism
- Psychoanalytic sociology
- Utopia