Allegory and Ideology Jameson Fredric
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts…
Specifikacia Allegory and Ideology Jameson Fredric
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralisms and tolerant (or intolerant) relativisms.This is not a book about "method", but it does propose a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect our biological individualities, our submersion in collective history and class struggle, and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and