The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson (PDF)

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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 A Singular Modernity .The Modernist Papers 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 The Aesthetics of Resistance.Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

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⭐there appear to be light graphite fingerprint smudges on the dust jacket of this book. can’t tell if it’s the weird off-white color from the printer/publisher or someone just had good time takin’ notes with their trusty mechanical bic for crit theory. as for the content of the book, it’s another quality work from america’s leading marxist critic. what can i say? if you haven’t had that “aha all the great critical theorists are marxists” moment, then i can’t make it happen for you!

⭐Before reading this book, Prison House was by far my favorite. The difference though is how much broader of a discussion that Modernist Papers encompasses. Through a lens of literary critique, Modernism is more illustrated than defined. The relationship between language and imagery is at the foreground of a very comprehensive collection of essays that can be read in any order.

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