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Time : a vocabulary of the present
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ISBN: 1479807494 9781479807499 9781479821709 1479821705 9781479874842 1479874841 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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"The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from "past/future" and "anticipation/unexpected" to "extinction/adaptation" and "serial/simultaneous." Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time--not space, as the postmoderns had it--is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live."--Publisher's description.


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Semiotik der Verewigung : Versuch einer Typologie anhand literarischer Texte um 1800
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ISBN: 3770565177 3846765171 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paderborn Brill | Fink

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»Schrift besitzt die Macht, zu verewigen.« Diese Vorstellung begleitet Schriftzeichen seit ihrer Erfindung und hat bis heute nichts von ihrer Wirkmächtigkeit eingebüßt. Aus zeichentheoretischer Perspektive ließe sich jedoch entgegenhalten: »Nichts« ist flüchtiger als ein Zeichen und jene Vorstellung eine bloße Behauptung. Vor diesem paradoxen Hintergrund unternimmt die Monographie den Versuch, systematisch innersprachlichen Verfahren nachzugehen, die dazu eingesetzt werden, Informationen möglichst dauerhaft festzuhalten. Sie stützt sich dabei auf literarische Texte zwischen 1755 und 1821 sowie deren historische Ko- und Kontexte. Es gelingt ihr so, im Schnittfeld von Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft sowie der Semiotik erstmals eine Typologie vorzulegen, die weit über die Zeit um 1800 und die Literatur hinaus zeichenhafte Verfahren im Dienste der »Verewigung« zu beschreiben vermag. Semiotics of Eternalization At the interface of literary and cultural studies as well as semiotics, this monograph systematically examines intralinguistic procedures intended to record information for eternity. It succeeds, for the first time, in presenting a typology that describes semiotic procedures in the pursuit of »eternalization« that are not only limited to the period around 1800. An extended English general survey and summary is included.

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