The Exploration And Analysis Of Jamson's Form Theory

Jameson's theory is magnificent,numerous and jumbled.It also has much logical leakage gap which are seldom questioned closely in the study. This paper focus on Jameson's Form Theory by carding and in-depth analysis, attempting to explore its reasonablity and potential theoretical gaps.The intension and extension of form ,as well as the relationship between form and content were discussed by Jameson.He made a fair criticism to non-Marxist Criticism.He tried to go beyond the antinomy between formalism and sociology,as well as history.In the same time he made great efforts to establish the "dialectical criticism",in which the adaption between form and content was an important standard with Utopia color to evaluate the outstanding literary works. He argued that the equal importance should be given to both form and content in the literary interpretation,but a student made a one-sided view that there was a transition of interpretation from content to form.Jameson thought that the process of criticism was more the disclosure than the interpretation,which was a profound insights certainly.But this was prone to make criticism into a "treasure hunting" game inevitably. In addition, whether and how to separate the disclosure and interpretation thoroughly was a nuisance problem. There were also much leakage gap within the interpretation framework of three concentric circles which was cherished by Jameson.Jameson asserted that the post-modern culture had lost their previous provocation and impact compared with the modern culture in the cultural shift. This was the keen grasp to the pulse of the era firstly, but it triggered a series of problems.