What is the present?

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and culture. The problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: North, Michael, 1951- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2018
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991007253329706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE. 1. This Point in Time
  • 2. The Search for the Experiential Present
  • 3. The Longest Now: A History of the Historical Present
  • PART TWO. 4. The Present in Pictures
  • 5. Narrative and the "Unexplained Instant"
  • 6. The Cinematic Present from Intolerance to Interstellar
  • Conclusion: Here and Now