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New Historicism and Cultural Materialism - Coggle Diagram
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
New Historicism
Cultural Materialism
20th C---21st C
1980s---
The use of historical context
History---Historicism
Conventional Way of using history to study literature---How do we move away from that?
Context= Political, social, cultural, economic---
US
UK
Historicism: Historicism is the traditional study of history as a record of what happened at a
previous point in time.
Historicist: A historicist reflects an approach focusing on historical events and their role in shaping the subject under discussion.
Greenblatt---studying fiction and non-fiction together
two-way process: fiction non-fiction both help ion understanding the other text
Reading history or non-fiction as fiction---analyzing it side by side with the fictional text
Anecdote
Scene-setting
Montrose, Orgel--- Historical texts should not be looked at as stable backgrounds
Historical accounts---open to interpretation
reversing the usual order of reading the texts
Influenced by poststructuralism
Historical Accounts---Open to be questioned as these accounts are not 'stable' and are 'unreliable'
Texts exist in relation to one another---