TIME AND THE LITERARY by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, English Institute, edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, Karen Newman ISBN 9780415939607, 9780415939614, 0415939607, 0415939615 instant download

TIME AND THE LITERARY by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, English Institute, edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch, Karen Newman ISBN 9780415939607, 9780415939614, 0415939607, 0415939615 instant download

The immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated time and the literary. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay \"Literary History and Literary Modernity\" and newly commissioned essays on everything from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, however, that the literary constantly reconstructs our understanding of time. From eleventh-century France to a science-fiction future, this volume shows how these two concepts influence each other From eleventh-century France to a science-fiction future, Time and the Literary shows how these two concepts have been and will continue to influence each other.