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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2018
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991007253329706719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
