LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
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As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context
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As a historical object that is also aesthetic
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As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was frequently alleged that the New Criticism treated literary texts as autonomous and divorced from historical context, and that its practitioners were “uninterested in the human meaning, the social function and effect of literature."
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Because New Critics argued that their judgements were purely based on the context generated by the literary text and the language offered by the text, they called their analytical method “intrinsic criticism” to describe how they stayed inside the text’s boundaries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Formalist Criticism emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning. Examines a text as independent from its time period, social setting, and author’s background.