The Ancients and the Postmoderns : On the Historicity of Forms
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784782955
ISBN-13
9781784782955
Publisher
Verso Books
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Verso Books
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2017
Print length
304 Pages
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482 grams
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15.50 x 23.50 x 2.50 cms
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Literary theoryCultural studies
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"Fredric Jameson is America's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction." - Terry Eagleton
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 <i>The Wire</i>, 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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