Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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Duke University Press, Jan 6, 1992 - Literary Criticism - 461 pages
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry 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.

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The Cu1tura1 Logic of Late Capitalism
1
Theories of the Postmodern
55
Surrea1ism Without the Unconscious
67
Spatia1 Equiva1ents in the World System
97
Reading and the Division of Labor
131
Utopianism After the End of Utopia
154
Immanence and Nomina1ism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse
181
Postmodernism and the Market
260
Nostalgia for the Present
279
Secondary Elaborations
297
Notes
419
Index
431
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Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the coeditor, with Masao Miyoshi, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.

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