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UNINA9910466148003321 |
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Martin Theodore |
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Contemporary drift : genre, historicism, and the problem of the present / / Theodore Martin |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary, The, in literature |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Literature now |
Contemporary, The, in motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem.Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film. Emphasizing both the difficulty and |
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the necessity of historicizing the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Miéville, Kelly Reichardt, and the Coen brothers. Martin argues that genre provides these artists with a formal strategy for understanding both the content and the concept of the contemporary. Genre writing, with its mix of old and new, brings to light the complicated process by which we make sense of our present and determine what belongs to our time. |
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UNINA9910459131203321 |
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Ahbel-Rappe Sara <1960-> |
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Socrates [[electronic resource]] |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2009 |
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1-282-87065-3 |
9786612870651 |
0-8264-3864-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Socrates |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Socrates: The Man and the Myth; Chapter Two: The Life and Death of Socrates; Chapter Three: The Sources for Socrates; Chapter Four: Plato's Socrates; Chapter Five: Socratic Method and Epistemology; Chapter Six: Happiness and Virtue; Chapter Seven: The Socratic Schools; Chapter Eight: Socrates in the Modern World; Chapter Nine: Citizen Socrates; |
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Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Socrates and Self-knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Indices |
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Socrates is regarded as the founder of Western philosophical inquiry. Yet he left no writings and claimed to know 'nothing fine or worthy'. He spent his life perplexing those who encountered him and is as important and perplexing now as he was 2500 years ago. Drawing on the various competing sources for Socrates that are available to us, Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed guides the reader through the main themes and ideas of Socrates' thought. Taking into account the puzzles surrounding his trial and death, the philosophical methods and ethical positions associated with Socrates, and his las |
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