The New Historicism
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The New Historicism is a critical movement in literary theory that interprets texts through the lens of their historical and cultural contexts, emphasizing the interplay of power, discourse, and ideology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New Historicism canonical | 1 |
| The New Historicism (edited by H. Aram Veeser) | 1 |
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Target entity: The New Historicism Context triple: [University of California Press, notableSeries, The New Historicism]
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New Criticism
New Criticism is a 20th-century literary theory movement that emphasizes close reading and analysis of a text’s formal elements while downplaying authorial intent and historical context.
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New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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History as a Novel, the Novel as History
"History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
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The Teaching of Literature
The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The New Historicism Target entity description: The New Historicism is a critical movement in literary theory that interprets texts through the lens of their historical and cultural contexts, emphasizing the interplay of power, discourse, and ideology.
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A.
New Criticism
New Criticism is a 20th-century literary theory movement that emphasizes close reading and analysis of a text’s formal elements while downplaying authorial intent and historical context.
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B.
New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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C.
History as a Novel, the Novel as History
"History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
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D.
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
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E.
The Teaching of Literature
The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
critical movement
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historical approach to literature ⓘ literary theory ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Renaissance literature
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Shakespeare studies ⓘ early modern literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithScholar |
Catherine Gallagher
NERFINISHED
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H. Aram Veeser ⓘ Jonathan Goldberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis A. Montrose NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
New Criticism
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formalist criticism ⓘ old historicism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developedInPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| emergedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
circulation of power through discourse
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contingency of historical narratives ⓘ embeddedness of texts in social practices ⓘ historicity of texts ⓘ intertextuality between literary and non-literary texts ⓘ mutual shaping of literature and culture ⓘ |
| field |
critical theory
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cultural studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ |
| hasCritic |
formalists
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some Marxist critics ⓘ traditional historians ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Clifford Geertz
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Louis Althusser ⓘ Marxist theory ⓘ Michel Foucault ⓘ Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ cultural materialism ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ |
| institutionalizedIn | Anglophone academia ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
cultural practices
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discourse ⓘ ideology ⓘ power ⓘ representation ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ thick description ⓘ |
| mainFocus |
historical and cultural contexts of texts
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interplay of power, discourse, and ideology ⓘ relationship between literature and history ⓘ |
| majorWork |
Learning to Curse
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning ⓘ The New Historicism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The New Historicism (edited by H. Aram Veeser)
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| methodologicalFeature |
analysis of power relations in texts
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attention to marginal or suppressed voices ⓘ juxtaposition of literary texts with historical anecdotes ⓘ use of archival and non-literary documents ⓘ |
| viewOnAuthor | author as historically situated subject ⓘ |
| viewOnHistory | history as constructed narrative ⓘ |
| viewOnText | text as a product of its historical moment ⓘ |
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