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The Historical Approach

The Historical Approach. By Diego, Sean, and Emily. This approach to literary criticism.

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The Historical Approach

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  1. The Historical Approach By Diego, Sean, and Emily

  2. This approach to literary criticism The historical approach to literary criticism is an objective one, looking at the author’s historical environment and determining how this environment may have shaped his or her work. This approach may also concern the historical included in the book, not just in the environment of the writer.

  3. History2 New historicism was created by H. Aram Veeser in the 1980s in a series of essays called The New Historicism. His approach to literary criticism is used by those who wish to be impartial in their criticism while also being culturally literate. Such an approach attempts to answer questions such as “In what ways and for what reasons did the writer alter historical events?” (MHS Composition Guide: Approaches).

  4. Advantages • Works well for works that are political in nature such as “On His Blindness” by Milton • Necessary in order to place allusions in their proper classical, political, or social background

  5. Disadvantages • Tends to reduce the art of literature to the level of biography • Tends to make things relative rather than universal

  6. “Passport” The author of our poem, MahmoudDarwish, lived in Israeli-controlled Palestine. He wrote poems, such as this one, in resistance to Israel’s control over his home, and he was repaid with harassment and house arrest. This environment shaped the resentful tone of his poem, and the idea of the author not being respected on his own land is a product of the Israeli occupation.

  7. Credits Dr. Wheeler's Website. Carson-Newman College, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/ lit_terms.html>. Gale Cenage Learning. Gale, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/ glossary/>. Literature Resources: Critical Approaches. Purdue University, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. <http://www.cla.purdue.edu/blackmon/engl360k/critical.html>. MHS Composition Guide: Approaches to Literary Critiicism. City of Maryville, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. <http://www.ci.maryville.tn.us/mhs/studyskills/compguide/applitcrit.htm>. "New Historicism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Historicism>. Silva Rhetoric. BYU, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. <http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/>.

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