LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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A theory that sees history as a form of writing and discourse
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A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
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A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
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All of the above answers are correct.
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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: -The label of “New Historicism” came from it adoption of a Historicist sensibility, much as had occurred within historical scholarship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but coupled with the approach of the so-called “New History."
Detailed explanation-3: -New Historicists attempt to situate artistic texts both as products of a historical context and as the means to understand cultural and intellectual history.
Detailed explanation-4: -A critical approach developed in the 1980s in the writings of Stephen Greenblatt, New Historicism is characterised by a parallel reading of a text with its socio-cultural and historical conditions, which form the co-text.
Detailed explanation-5: -Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely used in philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.