New Historicism

CO-TEXT A historic document which is contemporary with and studied alongside a literary document. prank A play or literary composition written mainly to amuse its audience by appealing to a sense of transcendency over the characters depicted with a (usually) happy ending for the leading characters. ethnical MATERIALISM A unfavourable practice that concentrates on the interventions whereby men and women comprise heir own history and situate the literary schoolbook in the political situation of our own (and not of its own day as New Historicists do). It reads the literary text in a way as to enable us to recover histories. It uses the technique of close textual depth psychology but often employ structuralist and post-structuralist techniques. It works mainly within tralatitious notions of the canon. EMPLOTMENT The process by which a text is organized into a plot. EMPLOTTED organise into a plot. EPIC A long narrative poem celebrating the smashing deeds of one or more legenda ry heros in a grand ceremonious style. EQUAL WEIGHTING A combined recreate in the textuality of history, the historicity of texts (L.Montrose) FICTION-MAKING The historian bestows a particular significance upon certain historical events and then matches them up with a precise type of plot. MAINSTREAM LITERARY taradiddle Old historicism, dominant historical scholarship, monological, earlier historicism, single political vision, internally coherent and consistent, the status of historical fact, a stable point of reference. level A set of events (The story) recounted in a process of narration (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 reality (from Derrida) and the exposit that society is governed by the collusion between discourse and power (from Foucault). It places lit erary 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 selection and rate of the bounteous sequence of events (story). The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work. ROMANCE A fictional story in meter or prose that relates improbable adventures of idealized characters in some remote or enchanted setting. A tendency in fiction opposite to that of realism. badinage 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 likely order,, date and frequency. In modern narratology, the sequence of imagined events that we reconstruct from the actual arrangement of a narrative. In the everyday sense, any narrative or tale relative a series of events. TAILORING Adapting the facts to a p articular story form. tragedy A serious play or novel representing the disastrous fall of a central character, the protagonist. VALUE-NEUTRAL Historical events acquire narrative value completely after the historian organizes them into a specific plot type. VERBAL FICTIONS A construct which is made of words and based on invention quite a than reality.