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The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

By Fredric Jameson

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2015
ISBN
9781781685945, 9781781685938, 9781781687444, 1781685940
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2267924 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-11-03 08:08:34

Description

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The WireHigh 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.From the Hardcover edition.

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