Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
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This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature.Tags
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The modernist as attending generally to the dense and original quality of life on the margin, the postmodernist explodes meaning and principle and so makes a staunchly unproductive commitment to ahistoricity. first essay is like maybe the only lucid thing anyone has written about this movement ever. what the hell
His writing has a remarkable resemblance to projectile vomiting.
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Fredric R. Jameson, Marxist theorist and professor of comparative literature at Duke University, was born in Cleveland in 1934. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught at Harvard, the University of California at San Diego, and Yale University before moving to Duke in 1985. He most famous work is Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of show more Late Capitalism, which won the Modern Language Association's Lowell Award. Jameson was among the first to associate a specific set of political and economic circumstances with the term postmodernism. His other books include Sartre: The Origin of a Style, The Seeds of Time, and The Cultural Turn. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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- Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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- 1991
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Art & Design
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- 809.91 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying specific qualities of style, mood, viewpoint
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- PN98 .P67 .J3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Criticism
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