Contemporary Drift : : Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present / / Theodore Martin.
What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, pa...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Literature Now
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 23 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theses on the Concept of the Contemporary
- Chapter One. Decade: Period Pieces
- Chapter Two. Revival: Situating Noir
- Chapter Three. Waiting: Mysterious Circumstances
- Chapter Four. Weather: Western Climes
- Chapter Five. Survival: Work and Plague
- Conclusion: How to Historicize the Present
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index