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Title: Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0-226-27935-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Waiting for a Theory of Practice
Comment: Written by the two leading practitioners of New Historicism, this book is the most valuable reference up to date demonstrating the power, as well as the weaknesses, of this peculiar "method" of reading. The first three chapters on methodology advocate the immanence of (counter)historical particulars and anecdotes, which explains the authors' reluctance to endorse any transcendental abstraction of theory. Paradoxically, the historical sense as well as literary "taste" (the valuation of difference, details, ruptures) that Greenblatt and Gallagher embrace is recognisably shaped by contemporary theoretical interventions, but this debt to theory is obscured as a result of their disavowal of any "methodological directives." This obstinate disavowal, worse still, seems to join force with the conservative current of "Against Theory" in the name of history (the very motto put forward by some critics who are also related to New Historicism). The next four chapters are the "practice" part, where the authors obviously feel more at home. Their close reading and deft montage of a wide variety of discourses or artifices (drama, fiction, paintings, theological and economic debates, medical treatises...) is marvelous and dazzling, testifying how much New Historicism has widened the horizon of literary criticism. The juxtaposition of topics (the Host and the potato, the wicked sons in Hamlet and Great Expectations) also throws unexpected light on the materials. Yet the question remains: how to theorise further such montage or juxtaposition, if it is not entirely governed by whim?
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Title: Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0691102570 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Jay Greenblatt ISBN: 0226306542 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies by Stephen Greenblatt, Giles B. Gunn ISBN: 0873523962 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.75 |
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Title: The New Historicism by H. Aram Veeser ISBN: 0415900700 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (New Historicism, Studies in Cultural Poetics, No 84) by Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblaet ISBN: 0520061608 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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