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New Historicism is a school of literary theory that developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s. New Historicists...
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The New Historicism in Literary Study ... The "New Historicism," as by general agreement the movement has come to be called, is unified by its disdain for literary formalism. ... But the movement that now goes by the name of New Historicism differs from both of these. Perhaps the central statement of its themes is...
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Assumptions underlying the New Historical critical approach (taken from Judith Newton, "History as Usual?: Feminism and the 'New Historicism,'" Cultural Critique 9 [1988]: 87-121):
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Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is New Historicism?
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In the introduction to The New Historicism (Routledge, 1989), editor H. Aram Veeser outlines five key assumptions that connect both practitioners and critics: ... "First, [the new historicism] tries to diminish, or in certain cases to eradicate, distinctions between the `aesthetic object' per se and something called...
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(Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism)" ... Berkeley's star English professor is the progenitor of "the new historicism," currently the hottest of the hot literary theories. Academics from Cambridge to Tokyo fly him in for lectures and hang on his analyses with a tenaciousness previously reserved for the mumblings...
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Old Historicism ... New Criticism ... As with traditional historicism, new historicists argue that we cannot know texts separate from their historical context...
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Other problematic issues with Israeli New Historicism is that, while it tries to be objective, it still resonates with Zionist overtones. Secondly, Israeli New Historians have never utilized Arab oral history as a source--a critical component of coming to a comprehensive understanding of history.
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