Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-160) and index.

"Works by and on Frederic Jameson": p. [153]-160.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Why Jameson?
Key Ideas
1 Marxist Contexts
2 Jameson’s Marxisms
Marxism and Form and Late Marxism
3 Freud and Lacan
Towards The Political Unconscious
4 The Political Unconscious
5 Modernism and Utopia
Fables of Aggression
6 Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
7 Jameson on Cinema
Signatures of the Visible and The Geopolitical Aesthetic
After Jameson
Further Reading
Works Cited

An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema to global capitalism. Of his works, The Political Unconscious remains one of the most widely cited Marxist literary-theoretical texts, and 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', is amongst the most influential statements on the nature of post-modernity ever published. Adam Roberts offers an `ngaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.