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

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Fredric Jameson
2020
Published by: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Essays in Literature
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover Page

Half-title Page, Title Page, Copyright

Preface

pp. v-xii

Contents

pp. xiii-xiv

I. The Linguistic Model

pp. 1-40

II. The Formalist Projection

pp. 41-98

III. The Structuralist Projection

pp. 99-216

Bibliography

pp. 217-224

Index

pp. 225-234
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