The Modernist Papers
London: Verso, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo., 426 pp. Index. A tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which [cultural critic Fredric] 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. Near Fine in Very Good white dust jacket that has a touch of soiling. Item #613202628
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