Annotated Bibliography Of The New Historicism - 2440 Words

Bibliography Assemble for New Historicism New historicism was born in the end of 1970s. It is one of the most important theories of literary criticism. It is different from the old historicism. New historicism stressed that the implementation of a comprehensive reading of texts from political power, ideology, cultural hegemony perspectives, formalism. Its research focuses on literature and life, literature and history, literature and power discourse. The New historicism breaks the kind of wordplay deconstruction strategy, making the recovery of historical consciousness becomes an important methodological principles of literary criticism and literary studies. Some scholars hold the view that the new historicism is sure to permeate in all the fields of literature. Main animateurs of new historicism are Stephen Greenblatt and Hayden White. Stephen Greenblatt attached importance to research the self-shaping of renaissance. He regarded literature as the history of reshaping human’s heart. He tended to create cultural poeti cs of historical context. Hayden White engaged in the history of consciousness in 19th century. He advocated the narrative historical poetic theory. The concept of Cultural Poeticswas put forward clearlyby Greenblatt in TOWARDS A Cultural Poetics. New historicism cultural poetics had become a hot topic in contemporary academia that a large number of dissertation literary studies and cultural anthropology are new historicism as a problem object or researchShow MoreRelatedChildrens Literature13219 Words   |  53 PagesAges [500 to 1500 CE] 31 The European Renaissance [1500-1650 CE] 32 The 17th Century 34 The 18th and Early 19th Centuries 35 The Victorians: The Golden Age 36 Twentieth Century: Widening Worlds 38 9. Bibliography 38 1. Introduction In 1817 Robert Bloomfield, author of The History of Little Davy’s New Hat, wrote: ‘The longer I live †¦ the more I am convinced of the importance of children’s books.’ That similar statements are still being made two hundred years later shows us how much children’s books