Title: In the event
First published: 1999
Description: "This book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time.

Through attentive readings of a range of texts - including theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper reports, and "live" television broadcasts - In the Event elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium) and what we take it to represent."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Journalism, Literature, Philosophy
LC classification: PN4731 .E66 1999