The Theoretical Limits of the New Historicism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5090380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Lehan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/469124 |
| OpenAlex | W2329778218 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
T HIS ESSAY is a prolegomenon to a longer study on which I am presently at work. I could just as well have entitled it The Consequences of the Synchronic-or the Dangers of Spatializing Time. This alternative title is somewhat larger than my given title, which I keep because it helps me to focus my ideas by examining a limited number of writers--especially the representation school at Berkeley, as it has come to be known, with their effort to combine the rhetorical and tropological with the element of documentary and the Annals School kind of archival and historical research. In this essay, I shall offer a brief historical background of how we got ourselves into the present situation, shall try to illustrate some of the theoretical dangers of the new historicism by focusing on one fairly representative example of that methodology, and, lastly, I shall try to offer an alternative to such readings by suggesting the way we can restore process to our use of history
Epistemology · Historicism · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Geology · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |