LEADER 03972nam 22006734a 450 001 9910455048003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612239724 010 $a1-282-23972-4 010 $a0-226-48697-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226486970 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773745 035 $a(EBL)448561 035 $a(OCoLC)432995193 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193754 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197883 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193754 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226590 035 $a(PQKB)11193856 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448561 035 $a(DE-B1597)524948 035 $a(OCoLC)1135587052 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226486970 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10317885 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL223972 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773745 100 $a20080212d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLocal transcendence$b[electronic resource] $eessays on postmodern historicism and the database /$fAlan Liu 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (405 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-48695-8 311 $a0-226-48696-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-359) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Contingent Methods -- $t1. The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism -- $t2. Trying Cultural Criticism: Wordsworth and Subversion -- $t3. Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail -- $t4. Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism -- $t5. The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning -- $t6. The Interdisciplinary War Machine -- $t7. Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History -- $t8. Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse -- $t9. Escaping History: The New Historicism, Databases, and Contingency -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aDriven 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. 606 $aCriticism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCriticism$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aHistoricism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aHistoricism. 676 $a801/.950904 700 $aLiu$b Alan$f1953-$0919287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455048003321 996 $aLocal transcendence$92216425 997 $aUNINA