Fredric Jameson The Ideologies of Theory: Volume I: Situations of Theory; Volume II: Syntax of History. University of Minnesota Press, 1988. Theory and Literature series, 48/49. Foreword by Neil Larsen. 0816615780 xxix/212/230 pages. Softcover volumes, each measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", are in fine condition, with solid bindings, clean and bright interiors. ""The Ideologies of Theory" is a two-volume work bringing together for the first time the theoretical essays of Frederic Jameson's career as a critic. Most of them were composed under a particular set of constraints: the tension between literary criticism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the need to explain the Marxist intellectual tradition. These essays engage in both activities, thereby enlarging the conception of the literary text; they make its political, psychoanalytic, ideological, philosophical, and social resonances audible, and demonstrate the attraction of what Lyotard has termed "the desire called Marx," especially its capacity to tie an individual existence or temporality to the larger narrative we call History."