A lecture by Phillip Wegner,
“Fredric Jameson, toward a creative reading”
Tuesday 24 September, 1:30pm
Friedl Building, room 225
The lecture was drawn from material in Phillip Wegner’s forthcoming book, Late Theory: Jameson, or, The Persistence of Reading (University of Minnesota Press).
Wegner received his PhD from the Literature Program at Duke in 1993. He is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in the English Department at the University of Florida. Wegner has published on contemporary literature and film, utopian studies, science fiction, and Marxism. His most recent books include Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (2020), Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative (2014), and Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties (2009).
