LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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New Historicism rejects the idea that history is neutral.
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New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and non-literary texts.
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New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -New Historicism envisages and practises a mode of study where the literary text and the non-literary cotext are given “equal weighting”, whereas old historicism considers history as a “background” of facts to the “foreground” 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: -The key difference between new historicism and cultural materialism is that New Historicism focuses on the oppression in the society that has to be overcome in order to achieve change whereas cultural Materialism focuses on how that change is brought about.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main feature of new historicism is that they critic takes into account the entire historical situation surrounding the time the work was published. This includes the predominant social and political situation as well as more hidden ones. The critic also takes into account the background of the author.
Detailed explanation-5: -noun. : a method of literary criticism that emphasizes the historicity of a text by relating it to the configurations of power, society, or ideology in a given time. New Historicist adjective or noun.