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This chapter concentrates on what Jameson calls the “high literary novel” once it progresses beyond the late modernist period. The chapter discusses the specific limitations Jameson has placed on this kind of literature. In contrast, Jameson often discusses the political worth of generic fiction such as the detective novel and science fiction. By considering these tendencies in Jameson, the chapter demonstrates how his textual preferences have influenced his theoretical project. The chapter concludes by considering his more recent work on contemporary generic forms, foregrounding how Jameson’s categorising operations have become more fluid over the past decade. In doing so, it illustrates how Jameson’s later material might reconcile with recent scholarly work focusing on collectivity.
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Cogle, J. (2020). Jameson and Post-war Literature: Postmodernism, Utopia and the Collective. In: Jameson and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54824-7_4
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