American studies and the new historicism
This essay argues that one major reason American studies has proved resistant to the New Historicism is that its model of pouvoir-savoir, derived from Foucault, works more readily for cultures dominated by centralized power (e.g., Greenblatt's studies of
Chocano Díaz, María Gema
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The Analysis of the Story of the Execution of Hasank the Vizir Using New Historicism [PDF]
In cultural studies, new historicism is an approach that reconsiders the relationship between history and literature, emphasizing the historical context of the text as the site of discourse interaction and power relations.
Ali Taslimi, Moein Kamalirad
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Cultural Criticism in Historical Studies (Case: Gaumāta's Rebel and Darius' Kingdom) [PDF]
Perhaps the orientalists who studied the history of Iran, didn't comprehend the cultural context of Iran exactly. Today, we have to review our history by cultural discourse and recognize it by cultural criticism. In Achaemenid history, one of the debates
آرزو رسولی،
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The 1980’s saw the emergence of New Historicist criticism, particularly through Stephen Greenblatt’s work. Its legacy remains influential, particularly on Shakespearean Studies.
James Dale
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The Dubious Representations of Histories in Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Coined by Stephan Greenblatt in 1980s, new historicism flourished as a literary approach which presents new perspectives on the perception of history. It basically challenges the traditional understanding of history which claims that history records and ...
Ersoy Gümüş
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The Hell in Paradise: Revisiting British Development in George Bernard Shaw’s Widower’s House
Nineteenth-century Britain, also known as the Victorian Britain, was the age of prosperity, advancement, the dominance of the British Empire, liberality, and enhancements in diverse social grounds.
Younes Poorghorban, Kazhal Veysi
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Text, author, context: Comparative parallels of Shakespeare, Selimović, Hamlet, Nuruddin, Hamlet and Death and the Dervish [PDF]
This paper examines the authors William Shakespeare and Meša Selimović, their works, the play Hamlet and the novel Death and the Dervish, their heroes, Hamlet and Ahmed Nuruddin, and their coping in the socio-political and social context in which they ...
Terzić Marija S.
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels
The assumption that history posits itself as a fact, while literature is to be taken as an artistic form, only for entertainment (i.e., the difference between truth and falsehood, reality and illusion) has long been debated by formalists and soclologlsts
Lere Adeyemi
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COUNTERFACTUAL HISTORY IN ROMANIAN FICTION: OVIDIU PECICAN, „LUMEA CARE N-A FOST. O ODISEE ÎN SCRISORI ȘI DOCUMENTE MOLDOVENEȘTI DIN PRIMA PARTE A SECOLULUI AL XVII-LEA” [PDF]
If history is a matter of narrativity, then counterfactual histories are nothing but the evolving of plots which work out hypotheses about the nature of society and the condition of man, dystopic predictions, parallel narrative trajectories launching ...
Maria Elisabeta Muresan
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