A. New Historicism was a reaction against New Criticism, which was seen as too narrowly focused on text rather than context.
B. Both fields of literary study are American in origin.
C. New Historicism is simply an early form of Cultural Materialism.
D. Both fields of study are strictly focused on how readers interpret and invent meanings for literary texts.
Related Mcqs:
- How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
A. New Historicism rejects the idea that history is neutral.
B. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and non-literary texts.
C. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
A. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts.
B. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
C. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities.
D. All of the above. - What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?
A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts. - A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New Criticism - Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
A. Disintrestedness
B. Intresedness
C. Purification
D. Civilization - Who coined the term New Historicism ?
A. Jacques Derrida
B. Terry Eagleton
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Stephen Greenblatt - Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. - Who coined the term New Historicism ?
A. Jacques Derrida
B. Terry Eagleton
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Stephen Greenblatt - Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. - What is New Historicism ?
A. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
B. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
C. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history
D. All of the above
