Jameson, Fredric — The Modernist Papers

London / New York, Verso, 2007. Hardcover. Salmon paper boards, cream dust jacket in mylar cover; 426 pp. "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." (dj) And much more. VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; otherwise crisp and clean.) .