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Local transcendence : essays on postmodern historicism and the database /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liu, Alan, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 ContingencyNotes; Works Cited; Index