LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Detailed explanation-1: -New historicism, a form of literary theory which aims to understand intellectual history through literature and literature through its cultural context, follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of cultural poetics.
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: -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-4: -Determine the time and place, or historical context of the literature. Choose a specific aspect of the text you feel would be illuminated by learning more about the history of the text. Research the history. More items •13-Dec-2022