How Long to Read The Political Unconscious

How Long Does it Take to Read The Political Unconscious?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 15 minutes to read The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today. Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative. Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.

How long is The Political Unconscious?

The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson is 307 pages long, and a total of 78,899 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Political Unconscious Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 11 minutes to read The Political Unconscious aloud.

What Reading Level is The Political Unconscious?

The Political Unconscious is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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