![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act ( 1981), Jameson developed many of the key theoretical notions that underpin his more substantive literary criticism. In 2008, he was awarded the annual Holberg International Memorial Prize for academic scholarship in the humanities. In 1986 Jameson moved to Duke University, North Carolina, as William A Lane Professor of Comparative Literature, a position he currently still holds. He supervised Kim Stanley Robinson's University of California doctoral thesis on Philip K Dick and is perhaps the only person in the sf community to refer to Robinson as "Kim" rather than "Stan" (apparently because Robinson was too much in awe of his teacher to correct him). Jameson was Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Harvard University 1959-1967, the University of California, San Diego, 1967-1976, Yale University 1976-1983 and the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983-1985. (1934- ) US academic, political philosopher, literary theorist, and literary and cultural critic, born in Cleveland, Ohio he was educated as an undergraduate at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and as a graduate at Yale University, where he studied under Erich Auerbach his PhD thesis was later published as Sartre: The Origins of a Style ( 19) as a graduate student he also travelled to Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. ![]()
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