New Historicism is best understood as a symptom of postmodern immanence

Evidence

We have every interest in resituating the phenomenon of the New Historicism in this wider historical and formal context, in which its own local solutions (or evasions) find a more exemplary historical resonance. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 437

Categorization

  • XREF: Resonates with the reader’s aim to map their own intellectual position within the world-system: New Historicism becomes a case study of situated position-taking. — connects to: Postmodernism is best treated as a historical condition, not an ideas set. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 32; What is called postmodern populism is really a symptom of cultural mutation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 195; Postmodernism’s presentism forecloses the historical understanding needed to explain it — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 725 (+3 more)
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodernism is best treated as a historical condition, not an ideas set. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 32; What is called postmodern populism is really a symptom of cultural mutation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 195; Postmodernism’s presentism forecloses the historical understanding needed to explain it — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 725 (+3 more)

Broader Connections