عنوان

Contemporary drift :

شابک

0231181930

شابک

9780231181938

عنوان اصلي

Contemporary drift :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

genre, historicism, and the problem of the present /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Theodore Martin.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Columbia University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2019]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 250 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Literature now

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction: theses on the concept of the contemporary -- Decade: period pieces -- Revival: situating noir -- Waiting: mysterious circumstances -- Weather: western climes -- Survival: work and plague -- Conclusion: how to historicize the present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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 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.

موضوع مستند نشده

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

American fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Contemporary, The, in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Contemporary, The, in motion pictures.

موضوع مستند نشده

American fiction.

موضوع مستند نشده

Contemporary, The, in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Contemporary, The, in motion pictures.

شماره

ويراست

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Martin, Theodore

تاريخ عمليات

20200822103423.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y