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	New Historicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Historicism is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place and circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated creation of genius.
		New Historicist scholars begin their analysis of literary texts by attempting to look at what other texts—both literary and non-literary— to which a literate public had access at the time of writing, and what the author of the original text himself might have read.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Historicism (1057 words)

	Stephen Greenblatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greenblatt is regarded by many as the “father” of new historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics;" his works have been highly influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term.
		Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of culture, Renaissance studies and Shakespeare studies and is considered to be an expert in these fields.
		New historicism is regarded by many to have had an impact on "every traditional period of English literary history” (Cadzow).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Greenblatt (1799 words)

	Critical Approaches: Historical Criticism: New Historicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New historicism has less obvious ideological commitments than Marxism or feminism, but it shares their interest in the investigation of how power is distributed and used in different cultures.
		Many observers regard new historicism as politically to the left in its analysis of traditional cultural values; but critics on the left are suspicious of new historicism, especially of its reluctance to state its premises openly, and they generally regard its assumptions as conservative.
		New historicists thus see texts as less specifically individual and distinctive than do most objectivist critics; and although they sometimes consider the psychology of authors or readers, they mainly examine the prevailing tendencies shared across a culture and thus shared across all kinds of texts, whatever their class status, literary value, or political aim.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/litweb/write_newhis_cr.htm (379 words)

	New Historicism
		Similarly, the New Historicist effort to assimilate the literary text to history is guaranteed by the poststructuralist doctrine of textuality, which states that the text is not aloof from the surrounding context, that there is a contiguity, an ebb and flow, between text and whatever might once have been seen as "outside" it.
		The New Historicism cannot be considered a new subspecialty within the discipline of English in the same sense as the older subspecialties of textual criticism or Renaissance studies.
		New Historicists like to picture themselves as challenging "the institution of criticism"— breaking loose from what Jane Tompkins describes as "the extremely narrow confines of literary study as it is now practiced within the academy."10 In reality, however, the movement is another step toward the reconfinement of literary study.
	www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/historicism.html (4295 words)

	Historicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Instead, their historicism holds that there is only the history of philosophy or more generally, intellectual history, including the history of science and technology.
		The same label, new historicism is also employed for a school of literary scholarship which interprets a poem, drama, etc. as an expression of the power-structures of the surrounding society.
		In Christian circles, the term historicism refers to the confessional Protestant form of prophetical interpretation which holds that the fulfilment of biblical prophecy has taken place throughout history and continues to take place today; as opposed to other methods which limit the time-frame of prophecy-fulfillment to the past or to the future.
	www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Historicism (388 words)

	New Historicist & Cultural Materialist Theory
		NEW HISTORICISM: a rather unspecific term describing a revival of interest, among some American critics since 1982 when Stephen Greenblatt, in a special issue of Genre, used this term to describe a new kind of historically based criticism that studied literary works within their historical and political contexts.
		In this respect, new historicism has attempted to eradicate distinctions between literature and history, arguing that each partakes of the other and that both participate in social networks and deploy cultural codes that cannot be fully articulated.
		New historicists repudiate, or in their words, "refuse," the idea of an "Elizabethan worldview" or a Victorian frame of mind," etc., and have often tried to show instead how structures of power ultimately reabsorb opposition and dissent, thus giving the appearance of a homogeneous or totalized society.
	www.calvertonschool.org /waldspurger/pages/new.htm (946 words)

	New_Historicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New Historicism is often used as a label for the American version of Cultural Studies.
		New Historicism bases its assumptions on several concepts: "culture, text, discourse, ideology, the self, and history." All these concepts form the basis of New Historicism's study of literature.
		New Historicists are not uniform in their acceptance of Foucault's view of the "self." Some believe that individuals can study literature "within a cultural context," realizing that the work reflects the power structure of a society.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~pasupathi/critical_tools/e314l_fall_2000/archives/special2/lib3/New_Historicism.html (468 words)

	virtuaLit: Critical Approaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The new historicism developed during the 1980s, largely in reaction to the text-only approach pursued by formalist New Critics and the critics who challenged the New Criticism in the 1970s.
		In this respect, the new historicism is not "new"; the majority of critics between 1920 and 1950 focused on a work’s historical content and based their interpretations on the interplay between the text and historical contexts (such as the author’s life or intentions in writing the work).
		New historicists remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was—rather than as we have been conditioned by our own place and time to believe that it was.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_newhist.html (665 words)

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		Part of the attraction of the New Historicism was the double promise which it contained for practitioners of theory who wanted to move on instead of returning to the practical--i.e.
		To these critics, the New Historicism seemed to have it all: not only was it based upon the best of post-structuralist thought (Foucault, Derrida, de Certeau, Barthes and so on), it also applied that thought to the broad investigative field for which it was initially devised--not just to the self-deconstructive rhetorics of canonical literary texts.
		In contrast to the American New Historicism, British Cultural Materialism was largely influenced by a tradition of (neo)Marxist historicist critics, the most important of whom, Raymond Williams, coined the term in his Marxism and Literature.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2.r_pieters.txt (2048 words)

	Gallagher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Critics of the "new historicism" have given wildly different accounts of its political implications, but they generally agree that its politics are obnoxious.
		Since these are the issues new historicists study, it's hardly surprising that they have kindled speculation about their own discursive contexts, commitments to and negotiations of power, or the constitution of their historical subjectivity.
		In essence, she posits that many new historicists were children of the sixties - either in affiliation to European Marxism or to U.S. radical politics, which emphasized individual or small-group liberation rather than the massive universal class concepts underlying traditional Marxism.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/GALLA.HTM (437 words)

	New Historicism: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New Historicist scholars begin their analysis of literary texts by attempting to look at what other text text quick summary:
		The new world is one of the names used for the continents of north and south america and adjacent islands collectively, in use since the 16th century....
		New Historicists seek to find "sites of struggle" to identify just who is the group[For more info, click on this link] or entity entity quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_historicism.htm (1710 words)

	A Study of Literary Theory and Its Application to Renaisance Texts
		In the early 1980’s, feminist criticism and New Historicism came head to head in several important Shakespeare conferences—1984 SAA annual meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1986 at the World Congress of the International Shakespeare Association in Berlin; and 1988 a conference in Boston.
		Bevington’s essay is a litmus strip for the condition of the relationship between New Historicist and feminist criticism in 1995.
		Literary studies in English are currently in a state of considerable flux, and new disciplinary approaches as well as interdisciplinary approaches are on the rise, including: deconstruction, cultural materialism, gender studies, and new historicism.
	www.louisville.edu /~jelear01/RenTheory.htm (9852 words)

	LRB \| David Simpson : Touches of the Real (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New historicism was a 1980s thing, a literary critical movement that took shape on the West Coast, becoming established there and elsewhere as what one could talk about after having talked for long enough about feminism, deconstruction and literary theory.
		The critics associated with new historicism have been exceptionally unwilling to stand together for a team photograph - the mark of the movement is the disavowal of movements.
		At the same time, there was and is a foxiness to new historicism, which threatens its critics with the hint (sometimes more than a hint) that all this has been thought about and dismissed for good reason, or already taken care of.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n10/print/simp01_.html (2423 words)

	Hamlet Haven: New Historicism
		While “the queen is the life is the crown” through validating traditional myth (169), the increasing realism of the Renaissance causes a loss of meaning and thus a crux in the play: Hamlet, a “realist,” views the Queen’s marriage to Claudius as stripped of symbolic meaning, as only adultery (171).
		This article begins by exploring the observation that “most of the significant and sustained thinking in the early modern period about the nature of linguistic signs centered on or was deeply influenced by Eucharistic controversies” (8), such as theatricality, idolatry, and vulnerability of matter.
		Their independence and ability to choose a new mate “presented a contradiction to patriarchal ideology”; and “posed a radical threat to the existing social structure” (176).
	www.hamlethaven.com /newhistoricism.html (12786 words)

	CSC Conferences & Symposia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For philosophical new historicism, the matter is more stern: this enterprise aims fairly to discredit many of the conventions that make current disciplinary practice plausible.
		New historicism, far from undertaking history, turns out a ventriloquistic projection of the contemporary dilemma of the interpreter her/himself.
		[T]he New Historicist interpreter is thus a subject looking into the past for some other subject able to define what he himself, or she herself, is; but all the search shows in its uncanny historical mirror is the same subject he/she already knows: a simulacrum of the poststructuralist self insecure in its identity.
	cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/csc/conferences.cfm?doc_id=378 (4134 words)

	Theory Text
		Specific histories of New Historicism and cultural studies follow, providing details about key practitioners and descriptions of their working theoretical models; and the chapter concludes with a view of the current state of the practice of cultural studies in the West.
		New Historicism, or "cultural poetics," as it has developed under Greenblatt's direction, is indebted to the later work of Foucault, specifically where he examines the ways in which power works by organizing and channeling dissenting voices.
		Critics working in a new historicist vein do seem to agree that their work is arranged by a series of questions and problems rather than a systematic model for the interpretation of texts.
	www.csubak.edu /~mpawlowski/cultural_critique.html (11011 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review : Bringing history back
		The immediate genealogy of New Historicism was not German historicism but the Marxism of the mid-20th Century.
		New historicists feel that they can use their hermeneutical skills on all aspects of culture.
		New Historicism is moving, at least in one direction, towards a trust in mobility, not only in travel narratives but in the idea that culture itself is always moving from one place to another.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2005/06/05/stories/2005060500040100.htm (1366 words)

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		The Theoretical Limits of the New Historicism Richard Lehan THIS ESSAY is a prolegomenon to a longer study on which I am presently at work.
		Second, as the new historicism is applied to literary (especially narrative) texts it often creates a disjunction between what the text is saying about history and what the historian is saying about the text.
		The new commercial/industrial world was filtered through an aesthetic consciousness in their works, and in the writing of Joyce and Pound as well, who superimposed a mythic realm upon a naturalistic/realistic realm to emphasize what for Joyce became the Viconian cycles of history or what Pound would call the "repeat" in history.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/lehan.txt (7206 words)

	POST-POSTSTRUCTURALIST ...
		Indeed, if the New Historicism is new, it is so largely through its claim to offer a version of "historicism" while challenging the teleological, imperializing assumptions of nineteenth-century forms of historicism, and especially what Brook Thomas has called "narratives of progressive emergence," including both liberal and Marxist varieties.
		The political goals of both the New Historicism and Cultural Studies are, in the words of Edward Said, "noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom" (29).
		Gallagher, Catherine, "Marxism and the New Historicism," in Veeser, The New Historicism, 37-48.
	www.pum.umontreal.ca /revues/surfaces/vol2/brantlin.html (4028 words)

	New Historicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, New Historicists take this position further by then claiming that all cultural activities may be considered as equally important texts for historical analysis: contemporary trials of hermaphrodites or the intricacies of map-making may inform a Shakespeare play as much as, say, Shakespeare's literary precursors.
		New Historicism is also more specifically concerned with questions of power and culture (especially the messy commingling of the social and the cultural or of the supposedly autonomous self and the cultural/ political institutions that in fact produce that self).
		New Historicists would look at these same moments of rupture to examine how forces of rebellion are still able to be co-opted by the powers that be (e.g.
	www.chosun.ac.kr /~mgoh/criti/structuralism/newhistoricism.htm (1445 words)

	Jamie
		In fact, historicism in general as a critical theory can be elucidated by its convergence with hypertext theory, in much the same vein as George Landow’s work, which illustrates the convergence of the post-structuralist theory of Barthes, Bakhtin and Derrida with hypertext.
		Historicism’s concern with what Veeser calls the "network of material practices" and the physical as well as cultural relationship between different kinds of texts emphasize the importance of spatiality in this critical orientation; in addition, the recuperative impulse of historicism, which often seeks to recover marginalized voices evokes the interplay between textual and geographical space.
		In hypertextual historicism, it is finally this interconnectedness, this network of materials, this interplay of literary and non-literary texts which marks a work as such.
	www.ags.uci.edu /~clcwegsa/revolutions/Jamie.htm (1941 words)

	New Historicism Explained
		"New" Criticism's tendency to treat works of literature in a historical vacuum, as if a poem or novel had no relation to its historical context whatsoever.
		New Historicist criticism tries to relate interpretive problems (such as why Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius as he prays) to cultural-historical problems (such as contemporaneous debates about purgatory, transubstantiation, and salvation, as well as anxieties about what constituted legitimacy in the church, the monarchy, and succession to the throne).
		New Historicists also tend to stress that authors and poets are not secular saints--that even though they may be more circumspect about their societies than the average citizen, they nonetheless participate in it.
	www.sou.edu /English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/nhistexp.htm (413 words)

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