Name : Gohil Umaba .B Sem : 2 Roll No : 15 Paper No : 7 Criticism Topic : New Historicism Email id: Umabagohil123@gmail.Com Submitted By : Smt S. B. Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University .Department of English.

New Historicism is all about paying close attention to the historical context of the literary works. After all , play, poems, novels in general area product of the specific time and place.

New Historicism is an approach to literary criticism and literary and literary theory based on the premise that a literary should be considered a product of time , place and historical circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated work of art or text.

New historicist aim simultaneously to understand the work through it’s historical context and to understand culture as well as to investigate the intellectual history and cultural history through literature.

Second they want to study how a work of literary work comments on and relates to its context.

New historicism is a super influential theoretical school. The fact of the matter is that the new historicist transformed the way that literary criticism was done.

They made it legit for literary critic to talk about politics ,class and power and to take an interdisciplinary approach to study of literature.

New historicist aim to do two things first they want to study how a work of literature reflects its and sociocultural context.

Self –fashioning self fashioning is term coined by Green blatt. Who made it up to described the way that renaissance authors like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow created identities for themselves according to the social ,cultural and political code of their time

Early new historicist like Stephen green and Catherine Gallaher were inspired by three theorist : Michel Foucault ,Clifford Geertz and Raymond William.

Cultural as a text Cultural is like book New historicist think of cultural as text and literary text are little text within this big text that is culture .everything is text.

Non Canonical*New historicist like to study non canonical work alongside canonical work saying That distinction between “high” literature and “low” literature is just plain…useless.

Cultural Poetics Stephen green blatt ,prefer to us “cultural poetics” to describe , instead of “new historicism "but it much pretty means the same thing, except instead of emphasizing that it is new way to look for the historical sides of text.

Representation The new historicist’s job is to see how literary representations reflect aspect of the social life of their time and also how they comment on or critique them.

History*According to the new historicism history isn't just a list of facts that we compile.

*There are many different version of history so many different ways to show up in art or literature.

Materialism The new historicist take material condition very seriously because they think that these condition are really important in how literary works are produced and consumed by audience .they described history and culture as material.

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