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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815810903321

Autore

Jameson Fredric

Titolo

Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism / / Fredric Jameson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1991

ISBN

9780822378419

0822378418

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Post-contemporary interventions

Disciplina

809/.91

306

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Postmodernism

Postmodernisme

Sociologia de la literatura

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.