| The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms Contributor(s): Jameson, Fredric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784782955 ISBN-13: 9781784782955 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 700.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |