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How to Read a Moment - The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (Paperback)
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How to Read a Moment - The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (Paperback)
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In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is
inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that
the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of
the temporality that governs our present. "Time is a thing that
grows scarcer every day," observes one of Don DeLillo's characters.
"The future is gone," The Baffler argues. "Where's my hoverboard!?"
a meme demands. Contemporary capitalism, a system that insists that
everything happen at once, creates problems for social thought and
narrative alike. After all, how does one tell the time of
instantaneity? In this moment of on-demand service and instant
trading, it has become difficult to imagine the future. The novel
emerged as the art form of a rapidly changing modern world, a way
of telling time in its progress. Nilges argues that this historical
mission is renewed today through works that understand
contemporaneity as a form of time shaping that props up our
material world and cultural imagination. But the contemporary
American novel does not simply associate our present with a crisis
of futurity. Through analyses of works by authors such as DeLillo,
Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead, Nilges illustrates
that the novel presents ways to make sense of the temporality that
controls our purportedly fully contemporary world. In so doing, the
novel recovers a sense of possibility and hope, forwarding a
dazzling argument for its own importance today.
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