New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism
Why is histricism a problem? Why do we need a new historicism? This text considers these questions and aims to show that the problem of historicism, and new historicism, is more than just a problem of knowledge-validity and that new historicism is not so much an answer to the difficulties of history writing but the opening of new questions.
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Contents
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archaeology genealogy and power
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31 |
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anthropology ethnography
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66 |
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habitus representation and symbolic
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90 |
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oppositional practices and heterologies
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112 |
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Raymond Williams and cultural materialism
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138 |
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Althusser Macherey and Gramsci
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155 |
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subjectivity desire
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175 |
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Stephen Greenblatt and new historicism
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198 |
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new historicism and contemporary criticism
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