Essays about: "New Historicism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words New Historicism.
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1. Economic Theory and Economic History: A Methodological Review of their Connection in the Development of Economic History as a Discipline
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Throughout the development of economic history as a discipline, the methodological controversy between histographical investigation and formal theorisation from economics proper, explicit and implicit, has been steadily accentuated since the well-known “battle of methods” (Methodenstreit) in the late 19th century. From the impact of theory to history, which marks the emergence of new economic history in the post-war period, as well as the reverse process from history to theory, this thesis discusses how they have interacted and fissured since the "Methodenstreit" and how they can benefit from one another. READ MORE
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2. An Exploration of Social Dimensions Through Sherlock Holmes : A Historicist Interpretation and Teaching of Sherlock Holmes’ First and Last Adventure
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about the character Sherlock Holmes are known by many people, they excited readers when he first released the stories in different magazines, and they still excite readers to this day. This essay aims to explore the social dimensions in Conan Doyle’s first and last Sherlock Holmes story by searching for indications of social status and formality. READ MORE
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3. An Exploration of the American Justice System through the Trial of Tom Robinson : A New Historicist Analysis of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Adding something new to the understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which is considered a twentieth-century classic, would be nearly impossible if not for the outlook of new historicism. Through a new historicist analysis of Harper Lee’s literary text parallel to non-fictional texts relating to the American justice system and civil rights, this essay explores how race affects U. READ MORE
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4. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. READ MORE
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5. The Poet as Hero : A Study of the Clash Between the Hero and the First World War in British Trench Poetry, and Its Use in the Swedish School System Within the Subject of English.
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis studies the clash between the hero and the First World War in the works of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It explores the impact on their poetry and attitude towards the concept of the hero as it applied to them as people and poets. READ MORE
