The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

Fredric Jameson

Published by Princeton University Press 1972

The Prison-House of Language

A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism

Fredric Jameson

Volume 2 in the series Princeton Essays in Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214313

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Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.

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"A densely but lucidly written critique of modern linguistic theory and its application in and implications for formalism and structuralism. . . . The Prison-House of Language ought to be purchased by every library and read by everyone interested in modern thought."

"Jameson's intellectual stamina is altogether admirable, the breadth of his analysis impressive, and his expository skills, on occasion, remarkable. Moreover, his admiration for the achievements of the Russian Formalists and their 'cousins,' the French Structuralists, does not prevent him from offering some cogent strictures on the built-in pitfalls of Structuralist methodology."

"This is a brilliant and provocative book, perhaps most exciting in the suggestion of the new rigor and penetration possible in historical study when we have emerged on the other side of structuralism."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
I. The Linguistic Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. The Formalist Projection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
III. The Structuralist Projection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
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Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Copyright year: 1972
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Althusser; Louis; Barthes; Roland; Benveniste; Emile; Derrida; Jacques; Eichenbaum; Boris; Flaubert; Gustave; Freud; Sigmund; Gogol; Nikolai; Greimas; A. J.; Husserl; Edmund; Ivić; Milka; Jakobson; Roman; Kant; Immanuel; Lacan; Jacques; Lukács; Georg; Mallarmé; Stéphane; Marx; Karl; Neo-Grammarians; Ogden; C. K.; Picard; Raymond; Proust; Marcel; Richards; I. A.; Sartre; Jean-Paul; Shklovsky; Viktor; Tel Quel; Wilden; A. G.

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