Elsewhere and Otherwise: Introduction to a Symposium on Fredric Jameson’s ‘Allegory and Ideology’

Toscano, Alberto. 2021. Elsewhere and Otherwise: Introduction to a Symposium on Fredric Jameson’s ‘Allegory and Ideology’. Historical Materialism, 29(1), pp. 113-122. ISSN 1465-4466 [Article]

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This text introduces the symposium on Fredric Jameson’s Allegory and Ideology (2019), the second volume in his six-part The Poetics of Social Forms. It frames the debate with a brief exploration of some of the figures and problems of allegory that appear across Jameson’s oeuvre, and surveys some of the Marxist conceptualisations of allegory that have shaped Jameson’s approach, as it straddles allegories of the commodity and allegories of utopia. The musical investigation of the nexus of allegory and affect, and the presentation of political allegory as primarily concerned with the disjunction between (national and international) levels are also touched upon as salient dimensions of Jameson’s theorising.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-29010101

Keywords:

affect, allegory, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, music, politics, utopia

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
22 March 2021Published Online
March 2021Published

Item ID:

30443

Date Deposited:

18 Aug 2021 13:14

Last Modified:

20 Aug 2021 08:25

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30443

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