The Holberg Lecture 2008: Fredric Jameson: "Foreign Relations In World Literature"

Fredric Jameson's lecture from the Holberg Prize symposium 2008. Holberg International Memorial Prize 2008 was awarded to professor Fredric R. Jameson. "Fredric R. Jameson has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the "poetics of social forms". His work combines profound theoretical and philosophical ideas with painstaking fidelity to particular cultural objects. Jameson is the William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. Holberg Prize