New Historicism

CO-TEXT A historical docu handst which is contemporary with and studied alongside a literary document. COMEDY A play or literary composition compose chiefly to amuse its audience by appealing to a mother wit of superiority over the characters depicted with a (usually) happy ending for the track characters. CULTURAL MATERIALISM A critical practice that concentrates on the interventions whereby men and women make heir own hitarradiddle and situate the literary schoolbook in the governmental situation of our own (and not of its own sidereal day as New Historicists do). It reads the literary text in a elan as to enable us to recover histories. It uses the technique of close textual analysis but often employ structuralist and post-structuralist techniques. It works mainly deep down traditional notions of the canon. EMPLOTMENT The process by which a text is organized into a plot. EMPLOTTED Organized into a plot. EPIC A long annals rime celebrating the great deeds of one or mor e legendary heros in a grand ceremonious style. EQUAL WEIGHTING A have interest in the textuality of history, the historicity of texts (L.Montrose) FICTION-MAKING The historian bestows a particular significance upon certain(a) historical issues and then matches them up with a precise type of plot. MAINSTREAM literary HI apologue Old historicism, dominant historical scholarship, monological, earlier historicism, single political vision, internally coherent and consistent, the status of historical fact, a stable psyche of reference. NARRATIVE A set of events (The story) recounted in a process of thread (or discourse). A telling of some true or fictitious event o connected sequence of events, recounted by a narrator.NEW HISTORICISM A critical practice that gives equal weighting to literary and non-literary texts. It insists on the textualization of globe (from Derrida) and the premise that society is governed by the collusion between discourse and ply (from Foucault). It pl aces literary and non-literary texts in conjunction and interprets the former through the latter It looks for manifestations in text and co-text of State power, patriarchy and colonization. PLOT A particular filling and reordering of the full sequence of events (story). The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work. ROMANCE A fictional story in verse or prose that relates improbable adventures of idealized characters in some remote or enchanted setting. A tendency in fiction opposer to that of realism. SATIRE A mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn. STORY The full sequence of events as we assume them to have occurred in their apparent order,, duration and frequency. In modern narratology, the sequence of imagined events that we reconstruct from the actual order of a narrative. In the everyday sense, any narrative or rumor recounting a series of events. TAILORING Adapting the facts to a particular story form. TRAGEDY A serious play or novel representing the portentous downfall of a central character, the protagonist. VALUE-NEUTRAL Historical events acquire narrative lever only after the historian organizes them into a specific plot type. communicative FICTIONS A construct which is made of words and based on conception rather than reality.