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| + | "[[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 | ||
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| + | "The [[postmodernism]]s have, in fact, been fascinated precisely by this whole “[[Degradation|degraded]]” landscape of [[schlock]] and [[kitsch]], of [[TV series]] and [[Reader's Digest]], of [[advertising]] and [[motel]]s, of the late show and the [[B movie|grade-B Hollywood film]], of so-called [[paraliterature]], with its [[airport novel|airport paperback]] categories of the [[gothic fiction|gothic]] and the [[romance novel|romance]], the popular biography, the [[crime fiction|murder mystery]], and the [[science fiction]] or [[fantasy literature|fantasy novel]]: materials they no longer simply “quote” as a [[James Joyce|Joyce]] or a [[Gustav Mahler|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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| - | :The [[postmodernism]]s 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 [[motel]]s, of the late show and the [[B movie|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) - [[Fredric Jameson]] * Source: New Left Review 146, 1984, pp. 53—92 | + | '''Fredric Jameson''' (born 14 April 1934) is an American [[literary criticism|literary critic]] and [[Marxism|Marxist political theorist]]. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary [[culture|cultural]] trends—he once described [[postmodernity|postmodernism]] as the [[spatialization]] of culture under the pressure of organized [[capitalism]]. Jameson's best-known books include ''[[Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism|Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism]]'', ''[[The Political Unconscious]]'', and ''Marxism and Form''. |
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| - | '''Fredric Jameson''' (born [[April 14]], [[1934]]) is a [[literary criticism|literary critic]] and [[Marxist]] [[politics|political]] [[literary theory|theorist]]. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary [[culture|cultural]] trends; he described [[postmodernism]] as the [[spatialization]] of culture under the pressure of organized [[capitalism]]. Jameson's best-known books include ''[[Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism|Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism]]'', ''The Political Unconscious'', and ''Marxism and Form''. | + | * [[Dialectic]] |
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| + | * [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]] | ||
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| + | * [[Karl Marx|Marx]] | ||
| + | * [[Marxism]] | ||
| + | * [[List of contributors to Marxist theory|Marxist theorists]] | ||
| + | * [[Modernism]] | ||
| + | * [[Political consciousness]] | ||
| + | * [[Postmodernism]] | ||
| + | * [[Psychoanalytic sociology]] | ||
| + | * [[Utopia]] | ||
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"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
