paper no-8 cultural study "new historicism
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Name: Jinal B. Parmar Roll No.: 13Paper No.: 8 – Cultural StudiesM.A. Sem.: 2 Year: 2013-2014Submitted to: Department of English Smt. S. B. Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic: New Historicism, Post modernism and popular culture, and Post colonial studies
British Culture
Materialism
New Historicism
American Multicultura
l-ism
Postmodernism and Pouplar Culture
Postcolonial
Studies
Five types of cultural studies
New Historicism is a school of literary theory
First developed in 1980s Stephan Greenblatt Its aim is to understand the
work through it cultural context and to understand history through literature
New Historicism
New Historicism examining the writer’s time to affection work
Example of Merchant of Venice always comes to question of whether the play shows Shakespeare to be anti-Semitic
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Postmodernism: Postmodernism is a late 20th century movement Departure from Modernism John Watkins Chapman suggested “a Postmodern style of Painting” Postmodernism had been used to describe new forms of art and music Postmodern music is either music of the postmodern era One of the most well-known postmodernist concerns is "deconstruction," Major figure of high modernism: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, etc…
Popular Culture: The term "popular culture" was
coined in the 19th century or earlier Popular culture is entirely about
ideas, perspective, attitude, image and other phenomena
The abbreviated from “pop” for popular
Popular culture is connected with our society and our everyday life
Popular culture has four main types to analyze:
1. Production analysis2. Textual analysis3. Audience analysis4. historical analysis These analyses seek to get beneath
to surface meaning and examine more implicit social meaning
Post colonial theory is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism
Post colonialism refers to historical phase undergone by the the third world century
Ex. When Countries in Asia, Latin America and caribbean separated from the European empire and were left to rebuild themselves
Postcolonial Studies
• Edward Said’s concept of concept was an important touchstone to Post colonial studies
• Imporatant figure in Post colonial feminism is Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who the effect of political independence upon “Subaltern” in “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
• Homi K. Bhabha’s Post colonial theory involves analysis of nationality, ethnicity, and politics with poststructuralist ideas
• Franz Fanon in his book “The Wretched of the Earth” has been an important inspiration for post colonial culture
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