| Description |
xxi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The poetics of totality -- 2. Celine and innocence -- 3. Form production in The Magic Mountain -- 4. Kafka's dialectic -- 5. Allegory and history : on rereading Doktor Faustus -- 6. Ulysses in history -- 7. Modernism and imperialism -- 8. Joyce or proust? -- 9. Exoticism and structuralism in Wallace Stevens -- 10. Baudelaire as modernist and postmodernist -- 11. Rimbaud and the spatial text -- 12. Towards a libidinal economy of three modern painters -- 13. A note on A Vision -- 14. In the mirror of alternate modernities -- 15. Soseki and western modernism -- 16. Mallarme materialist -- 17. Gertrude Stein and parts of speech -- 18. "Madmen like kings" -- 19. Euphorias of substitution -- 20. "A monument to radical instants" |
| Summary |
"The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of anal/sis 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, Mallarme, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarities 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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| ISBN |
9781844670963 hardback |
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1844670961 hardback |
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