The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

by Fredric Jameson
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms

by Fredric Jameson

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781685945
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 05/19/2015
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture’s relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; The Cultural Turn; A Singular Modernity; The Modernist Papers; Archaeologies of the Future; Brecht and Method; Ideologies of Theory; Valences of the Dialectic; The Hegel Variations; and Representing Capital.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Our Classicism

1 Narrative Bodies: Rubens and History 3

2 Wagner as Dramatist and Allegorist 23

3 Transcendence and Movie Music in Mahler 59

Part 2 Late Modernism in Film

4 Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative 123

5 History and Elegy in Sokurov 141

6 Dekalog as Decameron 153

Part 3 Adaptation as Experiment in the Postmodern

7 Eurotrash or Regieoper? 173

8 Altman and the National-Popular, or, Misery and Totality? 197

9 A Global Neuromancer 213

10 Realism and Utopia in The Wire 231

11 The Clocks of Dresden 247

12 Counterfactual Socialisms 261

13 Dirty Little Secret 271

Index 285

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