Post-structuralism uses the term New Historicism, which has some connections to both anthropology and Hegelianism.

This school of thought sometimes goes by the name of New Historicism.

In Popperian terms, the " New Historicism " is an example of historism rather than of historicism proper.

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

" The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 24. 1, Cultural Studies and New Historicism ( 1991 ): 39-49.

The more recent influence of New Historicism and post-colonial studies have yielded readings of Shakespeare that typify the play as subversive, or challenging the status quo of Western imperialism.

Cultural Materialism and New Historicism.

* Stephen Greenblatt: New Historicism

Category: New Historicism

* Stephen Greenblatt ( 1960 ) – Shakespeare scholar, academic, literary critic, pioneer of New Historicism.

Similarly, Michel Foucault's New Historicism posits that there is a quasi-linguistic structure present in any age, a metaphor around which all things that can be understood are organized.

Today, " thick description " is used in a variety of fields, including the type of literary criticism known as New Historicism.

New Historicism is a school of literary theory, grounded in critical theory, that developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s.

New Historicism is claimed to be a more neutral approach to historical events, and to be sensitive towards different cultures.

H. Aram Veeser, introducing an anthology of essays, The New Historicism ( 1989 ), noted some key assumptions that continually reappear in New Historicist discourse ; they were:

Influential historians behind the eruption of the New Historicism are Fernand Braudel and the Annales School.

In its historicism and in its political interpretations, New Historicism is indebted to Marxism.

In its tendency to see society as consisting of texts relating to other texts, with no ' fixed ' literary value above and beyond the way specific societies read them in specific situations, New Historicism also owes something to postmodernism.

New Historicism shares many of the same theories as with what is often called cultural materialism, but cultural materialist critics are even more likely to put emphasis on the present implications of their study and to position themselves in disagreement to current power structures, working to give power to traditionally disadvantaged groups.

With this in mind, New Historicism is not “ new ”.

But New Historicism differs from both of these trends in its emphasis on ideology: the political disposition, unknown to an author himself, that governs his work.

New Historicism frequently addresses the critical theory based idea that the lowest common denominator for all human actions is power, so the New Historicist seeks to find examples of power and how it is dispersed within the text.