Running Head: NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES.

New Historicism and Cultural Studies

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New Historicism and Cultural Studies

Terry unravels the various distinct ideology definitions and explores the history concept

from enlightenment to postmodernism (Miemiec, 2017). Richer believes that historicism is a

practice which has resulted from contemporary theory and deconstructive understanding that

there is no approach of placing oneself as an observer beyond the circle of textuality. I think

Bourdieu text argues that those individuals who have a huge quantity of cultural capital are more

likely be able to decide what constitutes tastes in a society (Blommaert, 2015). Individuals with a

low amount of capital accept the taste and therefore admits existing constraints on conversations

between the numerous types of capital (cultural, social and economic). I also tend to think that

Greenblatt explains historicism to be political by repudiating that any social world is stable and

that works of art are alienated from struggles of power that are constituting social reality. Power

functions through numerous capillary channels and does not only include governmental action

and direct coercion but also daily routines and language.

I like the way in which these texts study how literary works reflect on its sociocultural

and historical contexts. I find these texts interesting because historicists will not just reveal that a

particular thing happened in a certain period but it was like living in that period and also what

people thought and felt at that starriest of historical time (Selden et al, 2016). Their methods are

really interdisciplinary since they throw together literature, history, economics, sociology and all

that it takes their fancy. These texts mix up things by consolidating various types of texts in order

to arrive full understanding of literary works and its setting. According to Miemiec (2017),

Eagleton’s text is an important intervention into theoretical discourse and maps out new grounds

in debating about postmodernism and the end of ideology.

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References

Blommaert, J. (2015). Pierre Bourdieu and language in society. Handbook of pragmatics, 19.

Miemiec, O. (2017). Ideas, Ideology, and Interests: On Terry Eagleton´ s Approach to

Culture. Middle East-Topics & Arguments, 7, 30-37. Miemiec, O. (2017). Ideas,

Ideology, and Interests: On Terry Eagleton´ s Approach to Culture. Middle East-Topics &

Arguments, 7, 30-37.

Selden, R., Brooker, P., & Widdowson, P. (2016). A reader's guide to contemporary literary

theory. Taylor & Francis.