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Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local presentâthe most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.
In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticismâincluding the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theoryâand digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.
In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticismâincluding the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theoryâand digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2009Print ISBN
9780226486963, 9780226486956eBook ISBN
9780226486970Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Contingent Methods
- 1 The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism
- 2 Trying Cultural Criticism: Wordsworth and Subversion
- 3 Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail
- 4 Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism
- 5 The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning
- 6 The Interdisciplinary War Machine
- 7 Sidneyâs Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History
- 8 Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse
- 9 Escaping History: The New Historicism, Databases, and Contingency
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index