Fredric Jameson: The Modernist Papers (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, history, ideology, literary criticism, literary theory, literature, modernism, narrative, postmodernism, resistance
“A new perspective on Proust, Joyce, Kafka and others from master of literary theory.
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress.
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.”
Publisher Verso, 2007
ISBN 1844670961, 9781844670963
426 pages
PDF (11 MB, updated on 2016-6-26)
Comments (5)Andreas Huyssen: After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, avant-garde, culture industry, fascism, high modernism, mass culture, modernism, pop art, postmodernism, poststructuralism
Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde.
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1986
Theories of representation and difference
ISBN 0253203996, 9780253203991
244 pages
PDF (no OCR; updated on 2012-7-18)
Comment (1)Graham MacPhee: The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · phenomenology, philosophy, postmodernism, technology, urbanism, visual culture
Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual–now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy–have interpreted this new condition as the beginning of a dystopian future, of cultural decline, social disempowerment and political passivity. Intellectuals–from Baudelaire to Debord, Benjamin, Virilio, Jameson, Baudrillard and Derrida–have explored how technology not only reinvents the visual, but also changes the nature of culture itself. The heartland of all such cultural analysis has been the city, from Baudelaire’s flaneur to Benjamin’s arcades.The Architecture of the Visible presents a wide-ranging critical reassessment of contemporary approaches to visual culture through an analysis of pivotal technological innovation from the telescope, through photography to film. Drawing on the examples of Paris and New York–two key world cities for over two centuries–Graham MacPhee analyzes how visual technology is revolutionizing the landscape of modern thought, politics and culture.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002
Volume 3 of Technologies series
ISBN 0826459269, 9780826459268
234 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-12-20)
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