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| Summary: | 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-incl.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
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| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0226486966
9780226486963
0226486958
9780226486956
9780226486970
0226486974
9786612239724
6612239727 |
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
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| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
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