Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
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Edition 19 (2014) Winner
Fredric Jameson
フレドリック・ジェイムソン
Furedorikku Jeimusan
Aliases:
Fredric Ruff Jameson
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1934-04-14 （Cleveland, Ohio）
- Died
- 2024-09-22 （Killingworth, Connecticut） age 90
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Cleveland, Ohio → Gloucester City, New Jersey → Haddon Heights, New Jersey
Career
- Occupations
- literary critic, philosopher, Marxist political theorist
- Active Years
- 1954-2024
- Affiliations
- Duke University, Harvard University, UC San Diego, Yale University, UC Santa Cruz
- Memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa
- Influenced By
- Erich Auerbach, Jean-Paul Sartre, György Lukács, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse
- Influenced
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Sara Danius, John Beverley
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverford College | Department of French | French | BA | 1950-1954 | United States |
| Yale University | Graduate School | Comparative Literature | PhD | 1954-1959 | United States |
| Moorestown Friends School | — | High School | — | 1946-1950 | United States |
Haverford College
Department of French
/ French
Degree:
BA
Period:
1950-1954
Year of Graduation:
1954
Country:
United States
summa cum laude
Yale University
Graduate School
/ Comparative Literature
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1954-1959
Year of Graduation:
1959
Country:
United States
Thesis: The Origins of Sartre's Style, Advisor: Erich Auerbach
Moorestown Friends School
High School
Period:
1946-1950
Year of Graduation:
1950
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Modern Language Association Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award | — | — | Modern Language Association | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Holberg International Memorial Prize | — | — | Holberg Prize Committee | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism | The Antinomies of Realism | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1991 | James Russell Lowell Prize | Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism | — | Modern Language Association | 受賞 |
| 1971 | William Riley Parker Prize | — | — | Modern Language Association | 受賞 |
| 2009 | Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award | — | — | Society for Utopian Studies | 受賞 |
Modern Language Association Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
2012
Organization:
Modern Language Association
Result:
受賞
Holberg International Memorial Prize
2008
Organization:
Holberg Prize Committee
Result:
受賞
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2014
Work:
The Antinomies of Realism
Result:
受賞
James Russell Lowell Prize
1991
Work:
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Organization:
Modern Language Association
Result:
受賞
William Riley Parker Prize
1971
Organization:
Modern Language Association
Result:
受賞
Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award
2009
Organization:
Society for Utopian Studies
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
1991 Cultural criticismAnalysis of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism.
postmodernismcapitalismhistoricity
The Political Unconscious
1981 Literary theoryNarrative as a socially symbolic act, with the slogan 'always historicize'.
Marxist criticismhistoryideology
Bibliography
- Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961)
- Marxism and Form (1971)
- The Prison-House of Language (1972)
- The Political Unconscious (1981)
- Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- dialecticalhistoricistMarxist
- Recurring Motifs
- postmodernismutopiacognitive mapping
Legacy
Preeminent Marxist literary critic, known for postmodernism analysis, influential globally including in China.
In Popular Culture
- Influence on Chinese postmodern theory
Trivia
- Had 7 children
- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke