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The document provides an overview of new historicist approaches to literary studies. It lists the objectives of understanding new historicism, including explaining its distinctive features, importance, main critics, ideas, concepts, and comparing aspects of new historicism. It defines key terms like hegemony, ideology, power, and textuality. The document also discusses analyzing samples using new historicist approaches and representative readings. Main ideas discussed include history, new historicism, cultural poetics, and cultural materialism.
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- 2. Class (6) Items QuickInfo Main ideas Key Terms and Concepts Sample Analysis Representative Readings
- 3. Part (6) Objectives Bythe end of this part, you will be able to: 1. Explain the distinctive features of the new historicist approaches. 2. Realize the importance of the new historicist approaches. 3. Name the main critics in the new historicist approaches. 4. Describe the main ideas of the new historicist approaches. 5. Define the main concepts and terms used in the new historicist approaches. 6. Compare some different aspects of the new historicist approaches. 7. Analyze some representative writings of the new historicist approaches. 8. Analyze sample analysis of the new historicist approaches.
- 4. 1. Answer thefollowing questions: 1. Who are the main critics of New Historicism? 2. What are the main ideas of New Historicism? 2. Write about the following terms/concepts:- 1. Hegemony 2. Ideology 3. Power 4. Textuality 3. Explain a sample analysis of: 1. New Historicism 2. Cultural Poetics 3. Cultural Materialism 4. Write about the following critical works: 5. Comment on the following passages from: Part (6) Questions
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- 8. New Historicism •New Historicismaims to understand intellectual history through literature and literature through its cultural context. •It was first developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s.
- 9. key assumptions every expressiveact is embedded in a network of material practices every act of unmasking, critique and opposition uses the tools it condemns and risks falling prey to the practice it exposes literary and non-literary "texts" circulate inseparably no discourse, imaginative or archival, gives access to unchanging truths, nor expresses inalterable human nature a critical method and a language adequate to describe culture under capitalism participate in the economy they describe.
- 10. Michel Foucault There isa popularly held recognition that Foucault's ideas have passed through the new historicist formation in history as a succession of épistèmes or structures of thought that shape everyone and everything within a culture.
- 11. Cultural Materialism •A termcoined by Raymond Williams and popularized by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (in their collection of essays Political Shakespeare). •Cultural Materialism refers to a Marxist orientation of New Historicism, characterized by the analysis of any historical material within a politicized framework, in a radical and subversive manner.
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- 16. Textuality According to NewHistoricism, all texts may be examined for their historicity, just as any historical phenomenon, no matter how apparently trivial or unimportant (e.g. Madonna videos or Renaissance miniature portraiture), can be analysed much as one would a literary text.
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