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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 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.

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Praise for A Singular Modernity :

"Fredric Jameson is America´s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction." -Terry Eagleton

Praise for Postmodernism :

"For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism ... Jameson´s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text." - Sunday Times

"The scope and profundity of Postmodernism , covering theory, architecture, film, video and economics, is truly staggering ... Brilliant." - Independent

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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.

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