Jameson, Fredric, 1934-

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Fredric Jameson (b. 14 April 1934) is North America’s leading Marxist cultural theorist and critic. He is the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French) and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University, where he has worked since 1985. Jameson has been the recipient of many awards throughout his career; some of the most recent and prestigious include the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize in recognition for, in the words of the awarding committee, his career-long research “on the relation between social formations and cultural forms.” Jameson was a central figure in the renaissance of Marxist literary criticism in the United States in the 1970s, and with his students at the University in California, San Diego he helped to found the Marxist Literary Group (MLG) in 1969. In the early 1980s his essays on postmodernity and late capitalism were seminal in grounding the concept of postmodernity in transformation in contemporary capitalism and became the center of intense debates.
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referencedIn Wellek Library Lectures Bibliographic Database entry for Fredric Jameson University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
referencedIn Biographical Reference Collection, ., 1972 - 2004 University Archives, Duke University.
referencedIn Paul de Man papers, 1948-1984 University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
referencedIn News Service Biographical Files, ., circa 1930s - 2004 University Archives, Duke University.
creatorOf Frederic Jameson papers University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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Cleveland OH US
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Critical theory
Marxist criticism
Postmodernism
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Literary critics
Philosophers
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Birth 1934-04-14

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