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New historicists analyze texts in conflict, viewing rebellion favorably. They see texts as biased narratives, not objective history. No text is superior, each offering valuable information. Rejecting ahistoricism of New Critics, New Historicists relate text problems to cultural historical issues. They focus on images, symbols, and viewpoints reflecting cultural problems. Key terms include discourse, power, self-positioning, and thick description. Influential figures are Michael Foucault, Clifford Geertz, Stephen Greenblatt, and Catherine Gallagher.
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New Historicism Noah Heath, Curtis Goodman, Ledell Moore, Avery Glass
Key Points • New historicists read a periodic texts as being in conflict. Viewed rebellion/subversion favorably, all of the forces seemed to be in a state of irresolvable tension. • New historicists see texts as biased narratives. History isn’t fact but it is rather objective. • No one text is superior to any other text. Any text might yield valuable information.
Key Points • New Historicists also reject the ahistoricism of the New Critics that had preceded it • New Historicists related problems within the text to the cultural historical problems that exists during the time that the text was written • New historicists were no longer were associated with a historicism of new critics. • Study of Renaissance and the study of culture.
Key Points • Images, symbols, and points of view address and reflect the cultural problems, hopes, or obsessions when the text was written. • Concerned with history, influences, values, tensions, and motivations in a text.
Key Terms • Discourse- language practice- language used by different groups • Power- held by those who are in charge and thus control the language and the ways in which language reflects their biases and views. • Self-positioning- the personal biases, ideological positions, and attitudes of those who write about texts and history. • Thick Description- details included in a writer accounting of time, place, people, events, and cultural practices. Write must include as many details as possible.
Key Names • Michael Foucault(1972-1984)- French philosopher. • Clifford Geertz(1983)- Anthropologist • Stephen Greenblatt(1980-2001)- Literary Critic. One of the Founders of New Historicism. • Catherine Gallagher(2000)- Literary Critic
Example of New Historicism- Cinderella • Women’s place into society is portrayed clearly. • Women generally don’t gain status in society unless they marry into money. Reflection of the time period. • Renaissance time period. Fairy God mother, princes, and ugly step sisters representative of cultural problems, hopes, and obsessions during that time period. • Told over centuries back to ancient Greek times. • Cinderellla is reflective of social conflicts throughout history.
