ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -New Historicist Criticism argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world. New Historicism: Provides background information necessary to understand how literary texts were perceived in their time. Shows how literary texts reflect ideas and attitudes of the time in which they were written.

Detailed explanation-2: -New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.

Detailed explanation-3: -Literary criticism is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of literature. Literary criticism is essentially an opinion, supported by evidence, relating to theme, style, setting or historical or political context.

Detailed explanation-4: -Moving away from text-centered schools of criticism such as New Criticism, New Historicism reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political, and historical milieu that produced it. To a New Historicist, literature is not the record of a single mind, but the end product of a particular cultural moment.

Detailed explanation-5: -Complaints Sometimes Made About New Historicism: That it tends to reduce literature to a footnote of history, and neglects the uniquely literary qualities of the work in question. Frederick Jameson argues that much New Historicist criticism lacks a theory of history.