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New historicism also has something in common with the historical criticism of Hippolyte Taine, who argued that a literary work is less the product of its author's imaginations than the social circumstances of its creation, the three main aspects of which Taine called race, milieu, and moment.
Harold Aram Veeser (born November 3, 1950) [1] is an American professor of English at City College of New York, best known for his founding role as a theorist of new historicism, in addition to his contributions to the historiography of postcolonial theory.
Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". [1] It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis.
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. [1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies [2] [3] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.
Cultural materialism emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s along with new historicism, an American approach to early modern literature, with which it shares common ground. The term was coined by Williams, who used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist analysis.
Pages in category "New Historicism" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
NFL players have sky-high salaries and contracts that would make the average person feel faint. They also get slapped with fines left and right, some frivolous and some substantial.
Much of his work has been "part of a collective project", such as his work as co-editor of the Berkeley-based literary-cultural journal Representations (which he co-founded in 1983), as editor of publications such as the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and as co-author of books such as Practicing New Historicism (2000), which he wrote ...