LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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NEW HISTORICISM
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CULTURAL MATERIALISM
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural materialism is a theoretical movement which emerged in the early 1980s along with new historicism. Williams viewed culture as a productive process, for him the study of the literatures of any age would reflect the dominant values of that society.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cultural Materialism is critical method which has four features: historical context, theoretical method, political commitment and textual analysis. The historical context undermines the transcendent significance traditionally consort to the literary text.
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 term was coined by Williams, who used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist analysis. Cultural materialists deal with specific historical documents and attempt to analyze and recreate the zeitgeist of a particular moment in history.