Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine

This essay examines how Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine shifts engagement with the details of the material world consistently onto the axis of temporality and how, in so doing, it fashions a theory of periodization in which historical and social trends and events are relegated in importance. Asking...

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Main Author: Thompson, Graham
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1508/