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Fredric Jameson

1934 - 2024

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Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fredric Jameson has received more than 1,123,707 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Fredric Jameson is the 1,678th most popular writer (up from 1,763rd in 2019), the 2,095th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,289th in 2019) and the 182nd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fredric Jameson ranks 1,678 out of 7,302Before him are Martin Walser, Barbara Cartland, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Konstantin Paustovsky, Basil Valentine, and Jules Romains. After him are Albert Cohen, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Henri de Régnier, Otfried Preußler, Jean-Jacques Ampère, and François Pierre La Varenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Fredric Jameson ranks 108Before him are Alasdair Gray, Cláudio Hummes, Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, Jean Sorel, and Garry Marshall. After him are Kisho Kurokawa, Tony Hoare, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, and Kira Muratova. Among people deceased in 2024, Fredric Jameson ranks 101Before him are Silvia Pinal, Yury Solomin, Daniel Revenu, Christian Oliver, Fumihiko Maki, and Toby Keith. After him are Saleh al-Arouri, Sérgio Mendes, Cissy Houston, Aleksandr Medved, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, and Gustavo Gutiérrez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fredric Jameson ranks 2,095 out of 20,380Before him are Garry Marshall (1934), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Don Walsh (1931), Jermaine Jackson (1954), Jonathan Frakes (1952), and Leo McCarey (1898). After him are Ellen Barkin (1954), Farley Granger (1925), Jesse Douglas (1897), George Roy Hill (1921), Ornette Coleman (1930), and Steve Perry (1949).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Fredric Jameson ranks 182Before him are Alice Walker (1944), Gore Vidal (1925), Ira Levin (1929), Martin Gardner (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), and Upton Sinclair (1878). After him are R. L. Stine (1943), Bernard Malamud (1914), Lewis Mumford (1895), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), E. E. Cummings (1894), and Ken Wilber (1949).