Ancients and the Postmoderns

High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson''s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from "Eurotrash" in opera to Altman and East German literature...