Chapter 1 Fredric Jameson: The Success and Failure of Critique 1 -- Chapter 2 The Dialectic of the Scriptible: Barthes and Adorno 21 -- Chapter 3 Hermeneutic and/or Critique 47 -- Chapter 4 "Deliberate Failure": Wyndham Lewis 67 -- Chapter 5 "Inevitable Failure": The Political Unconscious 83 -- Chapter 6 Failure and the Sublime: Postmodernism 103 -- Chapter 7 Jameson Post-Postmodernism: The Success and Failure of Theory 127 -- Coda: Beyond Success and Failure, Brecht and Method 149
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index