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Michel Foucault
A French philosopher whose ideas on power, knowledge, and discursive practices influenced New Historicists.
Discourse
In New Historicism, language and communication understood as a form of social practice that shapes and is shaped by power dynamics.
Cultural Poetics
Another term for New Historicism that highlights the analysis of literature in the context of cultural expressions and power relations.
Intertextuality
The New Historicist approach that studies the interconnections between texts and how literature influences and is influenced by other works.
Louis Montrose
An influential New Historicist scholar who emphasized the textuality of history and the historicity of texts.
Contextualism
A New Historicist practice of interpreting literary works through an examination of the social, political, and cultural contexts in which they were created.
Genealogy
A method, adapted by New Historicists from Foucault, that traces the history of discourses and ideas to understand how they have come to be constituted.
Homi K. Bhabha
Although primarily postcolonial, Bhabha's concepts of hybridity and the third space have been influential in New Historicist readings of texts.
Catherine Gallagher
A noted New Historicist critic who has worked extensively on the literature of the British 18th and 19th centuries.
Subversion and Containment
A New Historicist concept that looks at how literary works both challenge and reinforce societal norms and power structures.
Power Structures
In New Historicism, the examination of how historical and social power relationships are reflected in literature.
Historicize
To place a literary work within its specific historical context for analysis, emphasizing the period's cultural and social dynamics.
Heteroglossia
A concept from Mikhail Bakhtin that New Historicists use to describe the multiplicity of voices in a text and its social contexts.
Poetics of Culture
An approach within New Historicism that examines the literary texts as part of the articulation of a culture’s self-understanding.
Cultural Materialism
A branch of New Historicism that combines political critique with the analysis of historical context, often within a Marxist framework.
Thick Description
A term originating in anthropology that New Historicists use to describe a highly detailed account of a cultural practice.
Simultaneity of Discourse
A New Historicist principle stating that multiple discourses co-exist at any given moment and influence each other.
Stephen Greenblatt
An American literary critic and theorist who is considered the founder of New Historicism.
New Historicism
An approach to literary criticism that emphasizes the interaction between a work of literature and the historical context of its creation and reception.
Distant Reading
Though not specifically a New Historicist term, it relates to the practice of looking at literature from a broader perspective, often used in conjunction with New Historicist analyses.
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