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Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism

Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975)

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Jameson, F
January 1, 2014

There is a novel by Iris Murdoch in which one of the characters - an elderly philosophy professor - reminds us of Plato‘s conclusions, in the Phaedrus, on the use and misuse of language. ‘Words,’ Socrates is there supposed in essence to have said, ‘words can‘t be moved from place to place and retain their meaning. Truth is communicated from a particular speaker to a particular listener. ‘I It is an odd remark for a novelist to have one of her characters make.

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9780582059764

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January 1, 2014

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168 / 187
 

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Jameson, F. (2014). Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975). In Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism (pp. 168–187). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315845845
Jameson, F. “Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975).” In Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism, 168–87, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315845845.
Jameson F. Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975). In: Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism. 2014. p. 168–87.
Jameson, F. “Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975).” Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism, 2014, pp. 168–87. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9781315845845.
Jameson F. Beyond the cave: Demystifying the ideology of modernism (1975). Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism. 2014. p. 168–187.
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DOI

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9780582059764

Publication Date

January 1, 2014

Start / End Page

168 / 187