What Is the Present? /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: North, Michael, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gegenwart.
Philosophie
Zeit
Time in art.
Time and art.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
ART > General.
Temps dans l'art.
Temps et art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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