2. NEW HISTORICISM
It is against “New Criticism”.
Text – author – critix’ context
Literature reflects social context
Culture and context
non literary + Literary texts
There is no single history
3. OLD HISTORICISM
History is Objective
Author’s Background
Social context
History is universal
History as process and truth
4. Stephen Greenblatt
Cultural poetics
Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980)
upper class practiced self-fashioning.
Stephen Greenblatt’s, “The Circulation of Social Energy”
Dead author and dead culture
5. NEW HISTORICISM
Power in society
History is an anecdote
History is subjective
Traditional history as story of great man
Context – Co-text
Power shapes how lit is produced, and consumed
Investicate cultural norms and social conditions
6. Beginning
1970s in California
“Representation”
Louis Adrian Montrose
Catherine Gallagher
Clifford Geertz - culture should be analyzed like a text.
Marjorie Levinson and Jerome McGann
Foucault
7. Foucault
archaeology
author/artist
biopower
Discipline – surveillance
discourse
discursive practice
episteme
Panopticon, panopticism and surveillance
power-knowledge
Reason, rationality and irrationality
truth
8. Works
Order of things
1)resemblance
2)Differences and identities
3)representation
Discipline and Punish
Birth of Clinic
History of Sexuality
Gistory of Madness
9. Concepts
canonical text
White, Old, Male
State Power
Non – Canonical text
texuality of history and Historicity of text – Montrose
Social structures are determined by discursive practices
10. Cultural materialism
Coined by raymond williams
Allen Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimer
Political Shakespeare
“Marxist orientation of new historicism”
Politicized form of historiography – Graham Holderness
Structures of feeling – william rymonds
11. Mikhail Bhaktin
Problems of Dostoievsky’s Art
Monologic vs Polyphonic
Rabelais and his World (1966)
carnivalesque
Heteroglossia - polyglossia
Dialogism
unfinalizability
grotesque realism
chronotope
