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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as America's most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions; a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism); and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study."—Jonathan Arac
“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.” -- Ned Lukacher * Choice *
“An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture.” -- Stuart Hall * Marxism Today *
“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.” -- Gilbert Adair * Sunday Times (London) *
“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . .
Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.” -- Terry Eagleton * Irish Times *
“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.” -- Michael Bérubé * Voice Literary Supplement *
“The scope and profundity of
Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . .” -- Siauddin Sardar * The Independent *
