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Time and the literary: the immediacy of data expertise has supposedly annihilated either. electronic mail, mobile phones, satellite tv for pc broadcasting appear to have ended the long-standing culture of encoding our event of time via writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary heritage and Literary Modernity" and newly commissioned essays on every little thing from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, notwithstanding that the literary regularly reconstructs our realizing of time. From eleventh-century France or a science-fiction destiny, Time and the Literary indicates how those recommendations were and may proceed to persuade one another.
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In the essays that follow different presents confront each other in the act of revision and re-reading. Calling into question the by now predictable and ubiquitous move toward contextualization in literary study, they reveal the contingency of that move which situates itself between the present of production and the present of consumption. At best, contextualization introduces a space of critique into the present. At worst, it reifies a moment, setting if off from others in a move that rests on an unquestioning belief in the explanatory power of history, of marking time.
The genre of alternate-history fiction took off in the years after the Second World War and has grown steadily, especially since the 1960s. Postwar science fiction affords several instances of stories in which backward time travel and alternate history are combined, using the Y-shaped plot structure we've identified. Ward Lee's 1952 novel, Bring the Jubilee, for example, features a time traveler who starts his journey in the 1952 of a world in which the Confederacy won the Civil War, travels back to 1863 to view the decisive Battle of Gettysburg and thereby disrupts past events, causing the fork in time that constitutes our history.
Finishing by coercing George's consent to the expropriation, Biff gives the usual schoolyard tyranny a slight hint of class oppression. Against this background, Goldie's outburst—“Say, what do you let those boys push you around like that for? Stand tall, boy, have some respect for yourself! ”—sounds like the reprimand of the newly emancipated against an Uncle Tom, who still accepts his slave status. The year is, after all, 1955, the year after Brown v. Board of Education. That makes it Year One for national school integration, which will fill the magazines full of pictures of white bullies trying to block the entry of heroic young black people into their schools.