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How to Read a Moment - The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (Hardcover)
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How to Read a Moment - The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (Hardcover)
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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.
General
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
FlashPoints |
Release date: |
March 2021 |
Authors: |
Mathias Nilges
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-4343-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8101-4343-7 |
Barcode: |
9780810143432 |
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