Néo-historicisme


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"New Historicism" is a historiographic current based on the idea that a literary work should be analyzed in terms of its production in time, place and circumstances of its composition. p>

By working on the historicity of texts and a textualization of history, New historicism pays attention to the extreme otherness and strangeness of the past. He rejects the idea of ​​a context that predefines literary works.

New Historicism developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of Stephen Greenblatt and the New School of American Literary Criticism. Bibliography edit code

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