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The ancients and the postmoderns: on the historicity of forms

Autor Fredric Jameson

Editorial VERSO

The ancients and the postmoderns: on the historicity of forms
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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 whic...

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  • Publisher VERSO
  • ISBN13 9781784782955
  • ISBN10 1784782955
  • Type BOOK
  • Pages 296
  • Published 2017
  • Language English
  • Bookbinding Rustic

The ancients and the postmoderns: on the historicity of forms

Autor Fredric Jameson

Editorial VERSO

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 whic...

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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.

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

– Terry Eagleton (in praise of A Singular Modernity)