1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001046249707536

Autore

De Donno, Daria

Titolo

Notabilato e carriere politiche tra Otto e Novecento : un esempio di ascesa : Giuseppe Pellegrino, 1856-1931 / Daria De Donno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Galatina : Congedo, stampa 2010

ISBN

9788880869306

Descrizione fisica

260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Dipartimento di studi storici dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea / Università del Salento ; 93

Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di studi storici dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea. Saggi e ricerche ; 86

Disciplina

923

Soggetti

Pellegrino, Giovanni

Pellegrino, Giovanni

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967808903321

Autore

Liu Alan <1953->

Titolo

Local transcendence : essays on postmodern historicism and the database / / Alan Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612239724

9781282239722

1282239724

9780226486970

0226486974

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

801/.950904

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

Criticism - History - 21st century

Historicism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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. Sidney's 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

Sommario/riassunto

Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present-the 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 criticism-including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory-and 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.