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A unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score.

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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 Ameri...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers

This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century.

A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. Here an international panel of intellectuals consider the process of globalization and how the global character of technology, communication networks, consumer culture, intellectual discourse, the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected by recent worldwide t...

A major new interpretation of the concepts of modernism and modenirty

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Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers an introduction to the key writings on post modernism.

This anthology traces the ascendancy of materialist Shakespeare criticism in the United States and Great Britain over the past decade-and-a-half, influenced by such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser.

«Las semillas del tiempo» explora en tres movimientos la situación del presente cultural, intentando abrir una perspectiva de futuro de un mundo en el que es imposible predecir con algún grado de certeza. El primero de los ensayos, «Las antinomias de la postmodernidad», trata de iluminar algunas de las irresolubles paradojas entre las que se mueve el debate intelectual de nuestra época. En lugar de solucionarlas desde una perspectiva superior,...

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future, " as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck.

In his new masterpiece of cultural analysis, Fredric Jameson offers an idiosyncratic examination of what might be called a provisional or disposable canon - what aesthetic history might look at as we enter an age of the immediate and of the unimaginable overpopulation of art and culture. With examples as far-flung as the great storytelling of the Renaissance painters, Wagner, "Hamlet, " Mahler's symphonies, twentieth-century American (Raymond ...

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The Antinomies of Realism "is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Perez Galdos, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of thei...

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as a writer. What resulted was a coexistence or variety of language fields and thematic codes which overlapped and often seemed to contra...

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