The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms
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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 Th... More
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 Th... More
Book Information
Publisher | Verso |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 304 |
ISBN-10 | 1781685932 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1781685938 |
Publication Date | 05/19/2015 |
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