Local Transcendence : Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database - Alan Liu

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Local Transcendence

Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

By: Alan Liu

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Hardcover | 28 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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 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 Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to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.

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"This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"

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Contingent Methods	p. 1
The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism	p. 29
Trying Cultural Criticism: Wordsworth and Subversion	p. 71
Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail	p. 109
Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism	p. 139
The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning	p. 157
The Interdisciplinary War Machine	p. 167
Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History	p. 187
Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse	p. 209
Escaping History:The New Historicism, Databases, and Contingency	p. 239
Notes	p. 263
Works Cited	p. 333
Index	p. 361
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