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Historicism ("New Historicism" begins on p. 130) » Read Now
by Paul Hamilton. 214 pgs.

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Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the...
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Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the globalization debate. Historicism :*explains the theory and practice of historicism*presents the history of the term and its uses*introduces key thinkers in the field, from ancient Greece to the present*considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as post-colonialism, feminism and globalization.This compact, yet comprehensive guide enables students to understand and apply historicist approaches in their own studies.
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Literary Theory: The Basics (Chap. 7 "Literature and Culture: The New Historicism and Cultural Materialism") » Read Now
by Hans Bertens. 260 pgs.

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Tackling literary theory for the first time can seem a daunting task, it but it can be rewarding. This accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding theory, as the author:
-- leads you through the major approaches to literature which are signaled by the term "literary theory"
--...
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Tackling literary theory for the first time can seem a daunting task, it but it can be rewarding. This accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding theory, as the author:
-- leads you through the major approaches to literature which are signaled by the term "literary theory"
-- places each critical movement in its historical (and often political) context
-- illustrates theory in practice with examples from much-read texts
-- suggests further reading for those especially interested in a particular critical approaches
-- shows not only that theory can make sense but that it can radically change the way you read.
Covering all the basics and much more, this is the ideal book for anyone interested in how we read and why that matters.
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The Autonomy of Literature ("New Historicism" begins on p. 150) » Read Now
by Richard Lansdown. 265 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the...
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In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the experience of writing. This provocative study argues that literature has an abundant life of its own, and reconsiders that life in the contexts provided by three influential contemporary groups of critics: some North American philosophers; some psychoanalysts; and some theorists of history.
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Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Chap. Five "Renaissance New Historicism: Epistemic and Nonepistemic Textual Patterns") » Read Now
by Susan Peck MacDonald. 241 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism (Chap. 58 "New Historicism") » Read Now
by Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck. 1300 pgs.

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This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and...
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This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature. Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading. An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature. Special Features * Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines * In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present * Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading * Single index of authors, terms, topics
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Constructing Rhetorical Education (Chap. 14 "New Historicism and Social Rhetoric: From the Bard to the Boardroom - A Cultural Exchange") » Read Now
by Davida Charney, Marie Secor. 432 pgs.

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Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Chap. 8 "It's Renaissance Time: New Historicism, American Studies, and American Identity") » Read Now
by Michael Berube. 273 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...State 181 8 Its Renaissance Time: New Historicism, American Studies, and American Identity 203...cultural studies, deconstruction, multiculturalism, new historicism, and...
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Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts through Cultural Historicism (Chap. 2 "Foucault and Utopia: Politics and New Historicism") » Read Now
by Albert H. Tricomi. 206 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Foucault and Utopia: Politics and New Historicism 25 3. Tropes...7. Affectivity and New Historicism: The Mothering Body Surveilled...product of my engagement with new...
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The Uses of the Canon: Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory (Chap. 8 "'Cultural Poetics' Versus 'Cultural Materialism': The Two New Historicisms in Renaissance Studies") » Read Now
by Howard Felperin. 192 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past fifteen years. The essays subject many of New...
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An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past fifteen years. The essays subject many of New Historicism's most challenging claims to rigorous analysis, distinguish sharply between its American and British versions, and assess the causes and consequences of its politicization of literary studies. The theoretical and political issues at stake in current debates are clearly examined, and the uses served by the canonical texts at their center are re-examined within a broad cultural and historical perspective. Offering fresh readings of a number of classic texts--including Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Shakespeare's sonnets, More's Utopia, Donne's poetry, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness--this overview of contemporary critical theory and practice provides a deepened understanding of the complex and changing functions of the canon itself.
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Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (Introduction "Reading Beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism") » Read Now
by Thomas Pfau, Robert F. Gleckner. 476 pgs.

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Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that composed the culture of the period. This anthology - in recasting Romanticism in its...
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Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that composed the culture of the period. This anthology - in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context - ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies.
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The New Historicist Creepers of Vineland, in Critique » Read Now
by Mark Robberds. 12 pgs.

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...theoretical environs of the new historicism just as overtly as Gravitys...Structures Stephen Greenblatt, new historicisms scribe-apparent, offers both...to "try if not to...
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Constructing a World: How Postmodern Historical Fiction Reimagines the Past, in CLIO » Read Now
by Martha Tuck Rozett. 19 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library
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Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon ("The New Historicist Return of the Repressed Context" begins on p. 187, and "American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass" begins on p. 211) » Read Now
by Donald E. Pease. 344 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick...homologous with other neologisms -- new historicism, neo-Marxism, poststructuralism...within...