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New Historicism, Cultural Materialism - Coggle Diagram
New Historicism
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New Historicism
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literary texts not as mirrors/reflections of empirical reality and its social and political debates, but as interventions in, contributions to, and parts of such debates
History as a discontinuous process full of ruptures (the world does not become progressively better)
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the past is not directly accessible; the past is available only via texts and thus in mediated forms
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Method based on the parallel reading of literary and nonliterary texts, usually of the same historical period.
Refuses to 'privilege' the literary texts': literary texts and non-literary texts are given equal weight and constantly inform or interrogate each other
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Cultural Materialism
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materialism
against idealism; focus on the economic base of cultural production (museums, universities, publishing houses)
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