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The Ancients and the Postmoderns by Fredric Jameson

The Ancients and the Postmoderns

On the Historicity of Forms

On the Historicity of Forms

On the Historicity of Forms

By Fredric Jameson

By Fredric Jameson

By Fredric Jameson

By Fredric Jameson

By Fredric Jameson

By Fredric Jameson

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    About The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    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.

    About The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    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.

    About The Ancients and the Postmoderns

    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.

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    Category: Literary Criticism | Film | Performing Arts

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    Published by Verso
    Aug 15, 2017 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781784782955

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    May 19, 2015 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781781685945

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    Praise

    Praise for A Singular Modernity:

    “Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.” —Terry Eagleton

    Praise for Postmodernism:

    “For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism … Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.” —Sunday Times

    “The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering … Brilliant.” —Independent

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