Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHarvard University Press, 28. maj 2004 - 268 sider In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. |
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... readers in a distinctly modern landscape in which the present day of time- tables and fashions has rendered the past anachronistic . " People knew the exact hour and minute in which they would arrive in Paris , Trieste , or Kbnigsberg ...
... readers ; and the traveler's quarry , " the last romantic , " the fugitive who serves as a witness to the losses and dispos- sessions of history . It is not the march of time that has produced ruins in this story or stranded people in ...
... readers as like - minded con- temporaries who recognized themselves in the novelist's charac- ters and their lives in her plots . Therefore , while I recognize differences in the particular organization of historical time in Prussia and ...
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