The Ancients and the Postmoderns

Name: The Ancients and the Postmoderns
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By Fredric Jameson

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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.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

304

Release Date:

2017-08-15

Publication Date:

2017-08-15

Publisher:

Verso

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1784782955

ISBN13:

9781784782955

Weight:

478 g

Height:

151 cm

Width:

231 cm

Thickness:

27 cm

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