LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
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Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
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Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
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Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.
Detailed explanation-2: -New historicists goal is to simultaneously comprehend literature through its historical and cultural context while analyzing the cultural and intellectual history portrayed by the literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Using Foucault’s work as a starting point, New Historicism aims at interpreting a literary text as an expression of or reaction to the power-structures of the surrounding society.