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===New Historicism/Cultural Studies=== | ===New Historicism/Cultural Studies=== | ||
New Historicism is a method of literary criticism that looks to the historicty of the text by using relations to the configuration of power, society or ideology at a specific time within the past. <ref>Merriam-Webster [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new%20historicism New Historicism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref> This type of criticism notes the important of the text, but make sure to use historical events in assessing and examining the work. Through this, new historicism critics see whether or not the past ideologies are being passed from the past to the present, and possibly even to the future. <ref>Murfin, Ross;Ray, Supryia M. [http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_newhist.html Definiton of New Historicism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref><br /> | New Historicism is a method of literary criticism that looks to the historicty of the text by using relations to the configuration of power, society or ideology at a specific time within the past. <ref>Merriam-Webster [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new%20historicism New Historicism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref> This type of criticism notes the important of the text, but make sure to use historical events in assessing and examining the work. Through this, new historicism critics see whether or not the past ideologies are being passed from the past to the present, and possibly even to the future. <ref>Murfin, Ross;Ray, Supryia M. [http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_newhist.html Definiton of New Historicism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref><br /> | ||
New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. Clifford Geertz’s "The Interpretation of Cultures" or Pierre Bourdieu’s "Outline of a Theory of Practice" are good places to start when researching important examples of New Historicism literature. Stephen Greenblatt, who coined the phrase | New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. Clifford Geertz’s "The Interpretation of Cultures" or Pierre Bourdieu’s "Outline of a Theory of Practice" are good places to start when researching important examples of New Historicism literature. Stephen Greenblatt, who coined the phrase "''New Historicism''”, wrote "The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance", another good source for information on this form of literary criticism<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>.<br /> | ||
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