NEW
HISTORICISM
ENTER
New Historicism is a type of literary theory,
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which was first developed in 1980. The term
“New Historicism” was created by the
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American critic Stephen Greenblatt.
03 New Historicism is a literary theory based on
04 the idea that literature should be studied and
interpreted within the context of both the
history of the author and the history of the
critic.
New Historicism also known as the Cultural
Poetics.
Its purpose is to discover the original
ideology behind significant historical and biological
facts about writers, resources, and the art they
create.
Eg: animal farm, novel by george onwell
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FOUNDER OF
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NEW
CRITICISM
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
American literary critic, theorist and
scholar;
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Professor at Harvard;
02 One of the central figures of New
Historicism movement;
03 Regarded by many as one of the
founders of New Historicism (1980)
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His studies of the Renaissance was
well- known as a major figure
associated with New Historicism
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The Difference Between
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New Historicism and
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Old Historicism
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EXAMPLES
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OF
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NEW
CRITICISM
RAISIN IN THE
SUN
01 A raisin in the sun is a play by
Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on
02 Broadway in 1959. The titles comes from
the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.
The story tells of a black family's
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experiences in South Chicago, as they
attempt to improve their financial
04 circumstances with an insurance payout
following the death of the father, and
deals with matters of housing
discrimination, racism, and assimilation.
Aeschylus(Aiskhylos)
is often recognized as the
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father of tragedy,and is the first of the
three early Greek tragedians whose
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plays survive [Link] fact,by
03 expanding the number characters in
plays to allow to conflict among them
04 he was arguably the founder of all
serious Greek [Link] seven of
over seventy plays written by
Aeschylus have survived into modern
times.
Amiri Baraka
previously known as
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Leroi Jones and Emamu Amear
02 Baraka,was an American writter
of poetry,drama,fiction,essays and
03 music criticism. He was the author
of numerous books of poetry and
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taught at universities,including the
University at Buffalo and Stony
Brook University.
01 The story follows
the attempts of Antigony to
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Bury the body of her
03 brother going against the
decision. Of her uncle and
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placing her relationship
with her brother above
human laws.
Arcadia
written by English
01 playwrite Stom Stoppard,
explores the relationship between
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past and present, order and
03 disorder,certainty and
uncertainty. It has been praised
04 by many critics at the finest play
from "one of the most significant
contemporary playwrites" in the
English language.
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The Characteristics
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New Historicism
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03 New Historicism
is characterised by a To understand literature
04 in connection with
parallel reading of a text
with its socio-cultural and culture, politics, history
historical conditions, which and social realities.
form the co-text.
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03 Examining both how the
New Historicism
04 proposes that there is no writer's times affected
absolute boundary the work and how the
between fiction and work reflects the
history. writer's times.
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Advantages of
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New Historicism
Written in a far more It present it's data
01 accessible way than and draws it's
post-structuralist conclusion in a less
02 theory. dense way.
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04 Material is often Political edge is
always sharp, avoids
fascinating and problems of straight
distinctive. Marxist criticism.
PURPOSE OF NEW HISTORICISM
New Historicists aim simultaneously to understand
01 the work through its historical context and to
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understand cultural as well as to investigate the
intellectual history and cultural history through
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literature.
04 New Historicism aims at interpreting a literary text
as an expression of or reaction to the power-
structures of the surrounding society.
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