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1 My sincerest gratitude to the late Elizabeth A. Clark for making this essay possible. She kindly gave me her personal copies of several of the texts under discussion. They are now some of my favorite volumes, not least since they bear Liz’s marginalia. May her memory be eternal.
2 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, ix.
3 Jameson, Marxism and Form.
4 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 72. Italics mine.
5 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 3.
6 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 71–2.
7 See Lukács, History and Class Consciousness.
8 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 306.
9 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 327.
10 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 328.
11 Jameson isn’t the only reader to notice the allegorical resonance of Hegel’s method. Witness Hart, The Trespass of the Sign, 59 “If the dialectic uses the letter to give rise to the spirit, and if the Spirit is the meaning of history, as Hegel holds, then the Hegelian philosophy is an allegory of history.”
12 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 330.
13 Jameson, Marxism and Form, 338.
14 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 10.
15 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 10.
16 Cf. Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 74–102.
17 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 19.
18 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 19; 40.
19 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 286.
20 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 291.
21 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 346. Emphasis added.
22 Cf. Jameson, The Hegel Variations, 18–19.
23 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 346.
24 Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 286. Cf. Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” 392.
25 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 383–4.
26 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 347.
27 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 345.
28 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 345.
29 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 9–11.
30 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 13.
31 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 13.
32 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 20.
33 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, xx.
34 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 346.
35 Cf. Jameson, The Prison-House of Language.
36 Jameson, Allegory and Ideology, 347.
37 Jameson, “Hegel and Picture-Thinking,” 157.
38 Hegel, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, 15.
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Taylor Ross
Taylor Ross is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. His dissertation “Minding the Gap: Gregory of Nyssa, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Hermeneutics of Historical Theology” tracks the philosophical influences (principally, Hegel and Heidegger) on Balthasar’s early studies of Gregory of Nyssa. His most recent publications include an essay on philosophical hermeneutics in late Neoplatonism and an article on biblical exegesis in Origen, Basil, and Gregory.