{"product_id":"the-modernist-papers-isbn-9781784783457","title":"The Modernist Papers","description":"Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de froce of anlysis 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 intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.\"Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Terry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can truly be said that nothing cultural is alien to him.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Colin MacCabe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jameson’s chef d’oeuvre, \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, provides one of the more persuasive cognitive maps we have of the evolution of culture in the West in the period from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. His achievement is all the more notable in that he is by conviction a Marxist, hostile to Anglo-American empiricism, the anti-theoretical theory that reigns supreme today.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—J. M. Coetzee, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304593182949,"sku":"NP9781784783457","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784783457.jpg?v=1767740545","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-modernist-papers-isbn-9781784783457","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}