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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 cultureThe 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: North, Michael, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
  • 1. This Point in Time
  • 2. Search for the Experiential Present
  • 3. Longest Now: A History of the Historical Present
  • PART TWO
  • 4. Present in Pictures
  • 5. Narrative and the "Unexplained Instant"
  • 6. Cinematic Present from Intolerance to Interstellar.