Mimesis, Expression, Constructionbrings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’sAesthetic Theoryinto print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003,Mimesis, Expression, Constructionreproduces Jameson and his students' engagement withAesthetic Theory, one of the most influential theories of modernist aesthetics.The first and only published record of Jameson's teaching and pedagogic style, the seminar delves into modern and modernist aesthetics through the perspectives of Kant, Hegel, Freud, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche; Benjamin and other members of the Frankfurt School; the literary works of Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett; the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg; the films of Chaplin, Vertov and Eisenstein; the aesthetic implications of psychoanalysis and biblical exegesis; classical music; and...