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  <title><![CDATA[The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Routledge Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Fredric Jameson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 14:56:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 19 19:31:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;unconscious&quot; to which Jameson speaks is &quot;history&quot; and its class conflicts. Like Freud's idea that dreams are &quot;disguised wishes&quot; which have been &quot;hidden&quot; within the &quot;form&quot; of the dream, likewise within literary productions are the hidden wishes f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40331509">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 05:32:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ekphrasis; I knew I would get at least one concept that was new to me out of this book: A word that encapsulates Andrew Marvell's Last Instructions to a Painter ( <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/marvel04.html" title="http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/marvel04.html">http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/marve...</a> ).  Also useful was the book's concise clarification of Gilles Deluze's changing the question...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52372910">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find the first chapter of this book the most difficult, but I have re-read it several times.  Dense with theory and abstract concepts, Jameson’s description of the kind of Marxist literary interpretation that is possible in a post-structuralist age is well argued and employs ideas from the works...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23049421">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jameson at his most lucid. I especially like the first chapter, which spells out the ideological stakes of different literary critical methodologies.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wouldn't be fair for me to critique this book. I don't know what avenue brought it to my reading list, but I didn't enjoy this book much at all. Maybe if I was more interested in the subject of Marxist literary critique I'd have been more patient with Jameson's excruciating, hyper-academic writing. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[didn't resonate]]></body>
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    <review id="54665726">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 15:16:27 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[in the old days, I wold read 5 percent of a book like this and I would understand everything I read. Now I read the whole thing and I understand 5 percent.  This book has some beautiful sentences, and intensely dense language.]]></body>
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    <review id="24978648">
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    <body><![CDATA[A true masterpiece of Marxist literary and cultural theory.  ]]></body>
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