Main entry:

Jameson, Fredric, author.

Title & Author:

Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [1991]
©1991.

Description:

xxii, 438 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Culture : the cultural logic of late capitalism -- Ideology : theories of the postmodern -- Video : surrealism without the unconscious -- Architecture : spatial equivalents in the world system -- Sentences : reading and the division of labor -- Space : Utopianism after the end of Utopia -- Theory : immanence and nominalism in postmodern theoretical discourse -- Economics : postmodernism and the market -- Film : nostalgia for the present -- Conclusion : secondary elaborations.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape - both ‘high' and ‘low' - of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields - from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives - from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction - while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

9780822309291
0822309297
9780822310907 (pbk.)
0822310902 (pbk.)

Subject:

Postmodernism (Literature)
Postmodernism.
CHR 1991.
PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
Postmodernisme.
Kultur
Postmoderne
Spätkapitalismus
Literatura Comparada.
Théorie de la fiction.
Économie de la culture.
Civilisation occidentale 20e siècle.
Postmodernism (litteratur)

Added entries:

Post-contemporary interventions.

Postmodernism
Cultural logic of late capitalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75388
Call No.: ID:92-B2558
Status: Available