Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

There is surely no doubt that Fredric Jameson is not only an eminent critic but a great one, fit to assume his place in a roll-call of illustrious names stretching from Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, F ...

The book is full of, one might almost say overflowing with, ideas and interpretations. There are many subsidiary themes which contribute to the main structure of the argument, and these cannot all be ...