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The New Historicism

  • ISBN-13: 9780800629892
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • Edited by Gina Hens-Piazza
  • Price: AUD $32.99
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  • Local release date: 27/04/2002
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 127.00mm) 104 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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New Historicism has been a highly controversial and influential movement in university literature departments for almost twenty years. Biblical studies now wrestles with this force and evaluates its potential for interpretation. With lucid and jargon-free description, this study sets forth New Historicism for the nonspecialist. Defining New Historicism as a mindset rather than a method, it traces the development, discusses recurring features, and offers illustrations of this new literary approach.Here biblical texts are plunged back into the swirling currents of historical context only to disclose their plural, contradictory, fragmentary, and heterogeneous character. This includes the histories associated, represented, and embedded in those texts. In the process, the carefully guarded distinctions between text and context, history and literature, past and present, fade. In exchange for the loss of these tidy categories, New Historicism promises sufficient compensationnamely, a potential venue where the sharply drawn border currently separating historical investigations from literary studies in biblical interpretation can be negotiated.
Gina Hens-Piazza is Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies at Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of Of Methods, Monarchs, and Meanings: A Sociorhetorical Approach (1996).
Acknowledgments Introduction Historicizing the New Historicism On the Difference between Historicism and the New Historicism Recurring Characteristics of New Historicist Studies New Historicism-Three Illustrations Conclusion: Is New Historicism Already History? Abbreviations Notes Fur Further Reading
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