TY - BOOK AU - Jameson Fredric TI - The Political Unconscious / Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Art SN - 415045142 PY - 1993/// PB - Rouledge N2 - A major work that should be read by historians, social scientists and philosophers, as well as by literary scholars. Preface, On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Art, Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism, Realism and Desire: Balzac and the Problem of the Subject, Authentic Ressentiment: Generic Discontinuities and Ideologemes in the ''Experimental'' Novels of George Gissing, Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Joseph Conrad, Conclusion: The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology, Index ER -