The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Jameson, Fredric

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781781685938)

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The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Jameson, Fredric

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

$34.95
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Jameson, Fredric

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire

High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from "Eurotrash" in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which attempt, in their different ways, to invent new forms to grasp a specific social totality. Throughout the historical periods, argues Jameson, the question of narrative persists through its multiple formal changes and metamorphoses.

Author: Fredric Jameson
ISBN-10: 1781685932
ISBN-13: 9781781685938
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/01/2015 pg. 18
Choice 10/01/2015
By Fredric Jameson
By Fredric Jameson
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Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; The Cultural Turn; A Singular Modernity; The Modernist Papers; Archaeologies of the Future; Brecht and Method; Ideologies of Theory; Valences of the Dialectic; The Hegel Variations; and Representing Capital.

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