This document provides an overview of New Historicism, a literary theory that interprets literature within its historical context. It discusses key figures in New Historicism like Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Montrose. Some key aspects of New Historicism covered are its basis in deconstruction, parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts from the same time period, and focus on reflecting historical conflicts and details in texts. Examples of applying New Historicism to texts like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children are also provided.

1. New historicism
Name:-Nirali dungrani
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2. five types of cultural studies
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British
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New
Historicism
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multi
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Post colonial
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Postmodernis
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3. Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is
an American Shakespearean,
literary historian, and author.
Greenblatt first used the term
"New Historicism" in his 1982
introduction to The Power of
Forms in the English Renaissance wherein.

4. What is New historicism
New historicism is a literary theory based on the
idea of literature should be studied and
intrepreted within the context of both the history
of the author and the history of the critic.
New Historicism is a part of diconstruction.
Disiplin of history is a question for new historicism
It is the reflection against histirical criticism.
It is based on the parallel reading of literary and
non-literary texts,usually of the same time period.

5. Important critic of new Historicism
Louis Montrose:-
He was a early member of the New Historicism
movement.He is well known for his work with
Renaissance theatre and poetry.He is a professor
of english at the University of California.
H.Aram Veeser:-
He edited a collection of essays called “New
Historicism”.They discussed the main themes and
assumptions of the theory behind the movement.

6. New historicism:-Methods
The life of the author.
The social rules found within a text.
The reflection of a work’s in historical situation in
the text.
A new historicist pays attention on the conflicts
and the apparently insignificant details in history
as well as the text.

7. The new Historicist Approach
New Historicism:-
• Provides background information necessary to
understand how literary texts were perceived in
their time.
• Show how literary texts reflect ideas and attitudes
of the time in which they were written.

8. Characteristics of New Historicism
Placing the literary text the frame of a non-literary
text.
Refusing privilege the literary over the non-
literary.
New Historicism’s goal is to understand intellectual
history through literature, and literature through
its cultural context,

9. Example
Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a fine
example because only through understanding how
the experience of partition, homelands that exist
in the subjective, and the idea of displacement in
Rushdie’s own life can the full magnitude of novel
be explored.

10. Comperision
Old Historicism
• Hierarchical
• A historical Movement:-creat a
historical framework in which
to place the text.
• “The word of the past replaces
the world of the past.
New Historicism
• Parallel reading
• A historicist movement.
Intrested in history as
represented and recorded in
written documents-history as
text.
• The aim is not to represent the
past as it really was,but to
present a new reality by re-
situating it.

11. Conclusion
New Historicism
acknowledges not only
that a work of literature
is influenced by its
author's times and
circumstances, but that
the critic's response to
that work is also
influenced by his
environment, beliefs,
and prejudices.