The Postmodern Manifestation Of Contemporary Marxism Literature And Art Criticism

Fredric Jameson is a famous postmodern theoretician of western Marxism, literary critic and culture critic. His postmodern theory has become the one of the classical narrative of contemporary western literary theories. After 1990s, coming along with the cultural globalization, the economic integration unforgettably pushed people to pursue the so called "greatly narrates". Persisting in the Marxism principle and fusing with some other theory systems, Jameson constructed the Marxism explanation study system which was called "meta -commentary explanation study". The intrinsic core of Jameson's theory is its fundamental and intense political nature. His postmodern nature manifests the concept of "political unconsciousness" which shows the distinctive trademark of Jameson. This concept attempts to reveal the logical relationship between the literary, social and historical development circumstances through the explanation study of literary text, thus to reconstruct the validity for the "greatly narrates" of the Marxism. The history and the interpretation theory hide deeply in the text as political unconsciousness. The Marxism theory system is the main symbolic code of literature explanation. By using this main symbolic code, we can analyze the social, the history and the political factors which contain in the text. The theoreticians observe the decisive factors of the cultural ideology as well as the cultural functions behind the cultural products from the relationship between history, production method and ideology, thus grasp the cultural system and the cultural logics contained in the mutually affected text, history and politics. In order to achieve this goal, Jameson believes in adopting the strategy of "historicization", which is to textralize the history and then fablize the literature. Jameson has developed the ideology theories and proposed the concept of "ideology element". Jameson believes that both of the literature creation and the literary criticism are "ideology production". In the past, the bigger social class words must be "organized by surrounding the smallest 'unit'which is called ideology element". Based on the political unconsciousness theory, the "meta-commentary" has become Jameson's literature critic method. The "meta-commentary" refers to the fact that all the literature commentaries (as slightly as work explanation, as is big as literature theory) contain self-explanation and self-proof. What he adopts is the concentric circle explanation system which contains three vision ranges. The ranges start from the individual form structure analysis, then expand to the social class planes, finally arrive the broadest historical field of vision: production method plane. This explanation of the text under the instruction of Marxism main symbolic code, in fact is to revise the text. Jameson believes that explanation is a kind of revision, and it starts from the text structures. The individual text and its ideology elements all experience the final transformation, which transmit the information to us via the coexistence of different symbol systems. The symbol systems themselves are in fact the method traces or the predication of production methods. "Political unconsciousness" is the "the significant theory adjustment" to the Marxism made by Jameson. It is the postmodern reflection of the Marxism literature and art criticisms and the significant development of the Marxism theory. Although his theories contain some biased views, they made the distinguished contribution to break the tight encirclements from the various kinds of structuralism, post-structuralism and reappear the glory of the...