Question
This thinker discussed narrative as a “socially symbolic act” in his book The Political Unconscious. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher and literary critic who analyzed the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and van Gogh’s painting of peasant shoes in a book that opens by describing an “inverted millenarianism.”
ANSWER: Fredric Jameson
[10e] That book is about this period and artistic trend that Jameson calls “the cultural logic of late capitalism.”
ANSWER: postmodernism [reject “modernism”]
[10h] The Political Unconscious opens with this two-word slogan, which Jameson calls “the one absolute … imperative of all dialectical thought.”
ANSWER: Always historicize!
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago C | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Minnesota B | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |