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What Is the Present?
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A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and culture The problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today sp
Author Biography
Michael North is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Novelty: A History of the New, Machine-Age Comedy, and Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word.
Reviews"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
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