The Political Unconscious,9780801492228

The Political Unconscious

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ISBN13: 9780801492228
ISBN10: 080149222X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1982-07-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary

The Political Unconscious is a major work, and it should be read by historians, social scientists, and philosophers, as well as by literary scholars.-Hayden White "A major work of critical theory . . . The Political Unconscious integrates and refines a vast body of theoretical work, demonstrating a superb mastery of the field of contemporary criticism. The result . . . is a compelling, forceful argument in favor of the primacy of Marxism over contending strategies of interpretation."-Nineteenth-Century Fiction "Monumental . . . . Its learning and range of references are exceeded only be the imperial embrace of its complex argument, whose elaboration never imposes a sacrifice of clarity. . . . Indispensable for all university and college libraries."-Choice

Table of Contents

Preface 9(8)
On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act
17(86)
Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism
103(48)
Realism and Desire: Balzac and the Problem of the Subject
151(34)
Authentic Ressentiment: Generic Discontinuities and Ideologemes in the ``Experimental'' Novels of George Gissing
185(21)
Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Joseph Conrad
206(75)
Conclusion: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology
281(20)
Index 301

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