NOT P: lit Crit

[Dave Monroe]

The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms
by Fredric Jameson

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.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1784-the-ancients-and-the-postmoderns

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