The Modernist Papers

The Modernist Papers

by Fredric Jameson (Author)

Synopsis

The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarities of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon, he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression, while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss's novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understandings of the literature of this period, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Verso
Published: 16 Feb 2016

ISBN 10: 1784783455
ISBN 13: 9781784783457

Media Reviews
Fredric Jameson is American's leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction. Terry Eagleton Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today ... It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him. Colin MacCabe
Author Bio
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has 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, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.