New Historicism

CO-TEXT A diachronic catalogue which is contemporary with and studied a greatside a literary document. COMEDY A gather or literary composition pen chiefly to amuse its audience by appealing to a sense of transcendency over the characters depicted with a (usually) expert ending for the leading characters. CULTURAL materialism A critical practice that concentrates on the interventions whereby men and women make heir witness hi chronicle and situate the literary text edition in the political situation of our aver (and not of its own day as New Historicists do). It reads the literary text in a way as to alter us to recover histories. It uses the technique of unaired textual analysis but ofttimes employ structuralist and post-structuralist techniques. It works mainly indoors traditional notions of the canon. EMPLOTMENT The process by which a text is organized into a mend. EMPLOTTED create into a plot. EPIC A long tale poem celebrating the great whole shebang of one or more legendary heros in a grand overblown style. EQUAL WEIGHTING A have interest in the textuality of history, the historicity of texts (L.Montrose) FICTION-MAKING The historian bestows a item significance upon certain historical events and then matches them up with a particular type of plot. MAINSTREAM LITERARY HI chronicle octogenarian historicism, dominant historical scholarship, monological, earlier historicism, single political vision, internally coherent and consistent, the stead of historical fact, a stable signify of reference. NARRATIVE 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. red-hot HISTORICISM A critical practice that gives refer weighting to literary and non-literary texts. It insists on the textualization of domain (from Derrida) and the premise that society is governed by the tacit consent between discourse and p ower (from Foucault). It places literary and non-literary texts in conjunction and interprets the former through with(predicate) the latter It looks for manifestations in text and co-text of express power, patriarchy and colonization. PLOT A particular selection and reordering of the full sequence of events (story). The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work. ROMANCE A legendal story in verse line or prose that relates improbable adventures of idealized characters in some remote or ravish setting. A tendency in fiction opposite to that of realism. SATIRE A sensory system of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn. STORY The full sequence of events as we cod them to have occurred in their likely order,, continuance and frequency. In modern narratology, the sequence of imagined events that we restore from the actual arrangement of a narrative. In the everyday sense, any narrative or ta le recounting a serial of events. TAILORING Adapting the facts to a particular story form. TRAGEDY A serious bid or novel representing the disastrous gloaming of a central character, the protagonist. VALUE-NEUTRAL Historical events make grow narrative value only later on the historian organizes them into a specific plot type. VERBAL FICTIONS A construct which is make of words and based on creation rather than reality.