This book has been designed as a bridge to Jameson's work for undergraduates. This series is truly comprehensive, covering key ideas, intellectual, social and historical contexts and the impact of the thinker's ideas. These are usually the subjects of separate books Adam Roberts really knows how to write for a student audience Jameson is another very trendy postmodernist, but his work grows out of marxism, so he appeals to theory teachers of the old and new schools and appears on plenty of courses as a result The book has a large amount on `The Political Unconscious' - Jameson's most widely taught text