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The Ancients and the Postmoderns

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Ancients and the Postmoderns

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 tota...Show more

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9781784782955

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Verso Books

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2017

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