By Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch
Time and the literary: the immediacy of data expertise has supposedly annihilated either. electronic mail, cellphones, 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 historical past and Literary Modernity" and newly commissioned essays on every thing from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, even though that the literary consistently reconstructs our realizing of time. From eleventh-century France or a science-fiction destiny, Time and the Literary indicates how those innovations were and should proceed to persuade one another.
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