a comparative study of textual view between new criticism and newhistoricism

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1、AComparativeStudyofTextualViewbetweenNewCriticismandNewHistoricism　　Sincethelinguisticturnintheearly20thcentury，somenewcharacteristicsalsoinfluencedtheresearchofliteraturetheory.Forinstance，someschools，suchasNewCriticismandStructuralism，focusedontheresearchofliter

2、arytextsandendowedtheconceptoftextwithhighlyprofoundmeanings.Muchmoreattentionwaspaidtointerpretthetextanddifferentwaysofinterpretationcameintobeing.Fromtheabundantconnotationoftexts，wecanhaveabetterunderstandingofdifferentliterarytheories.Intheessay，theauthormean

3、stocarryoutacomparativeanalysisoftextualviewbetweenNewCriticismandNewHistoricism，forbothofthemarecloselyrelatedwiththetextsandrenownedfortheirviewpointsoftext.Theauthorwillelaborateonthesimilaritiesanddifferencesofthem，andthedifferenceswillbeillustratedconcretelys

4、oastograsptheessenceofthetheories.　　Whenitcomestothesimilarities，itseemsthattheyarenotrelevantatall.However，thereisacloserelationshipofinheritanceandnegotiationbetweenthem.FromtheacademicexperienceofStephenGreenblatt，thepioneerofNewHistoricism，itcanbefoundthathise

5、xperienceimpliesthecolonizationofNewHistoricismbyNewCriticismtosomeextent（Shao12）.Besides，bothcriticismsemphasizetheimportanceoftextandareeasytoputintopractice.　　Comparativelyspeaking，thedifferencesoutweighthesimilarities，andthedifferencesbetweenNewCriticismandNew

6、Historicismwillbeexpoundedfromtwomainaspects：thehistoricalbackgroundandthecontent.Firstofall，thehistoricalbackgroundarequitedifferent.AsforNewCriticism，itemergedinEnglandinthe1920s，cameintobeingintheAmericainthe1930s，tookadominantpositionintheAmericafrom1940sto195

7、0s，andbegantogetjudgedanddenouncedinthe1960s.BeforethebirthofNewCriticism，theromanticismhadbeenthemainstreamandfoundationofwesternliteratureofthe19thcentury.Theromanticismrenderstheliteraryworksas“thespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeelings：ittakesitsoriginfromemotio

8、nrecollectedintranquility”sothattheliterarycriticsconcentrateontheexperienceandbackgroundoftheauthorandthesocialcontextinsteadofthetextitself.Afterwards