LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Cultural Materialism
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New Historisicm
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Veeser, H. Aram (Ed.). The New Historicism. Routledge, 1989.
Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction. New historicism has been a hugely influential approach to literature, especially in studies of William Shakespeare’s works and literature of the Early Modern period. It began in earnest in 1980 and quickly supplanted New Criticism as the new orthodoxy in early modern studies.
Detailed explanation-4: -A critical approach developed in the 1980s through the works of Michel Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt, similar to Marxism.