EN 4504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Intertextuality
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Spencer & faerie queen -> it"s very easy to turn allegory in different directions (sometimes the one that the author did not have intended/or did) Part of the problem in 1590"s, queen was getting old but refusing to admit it. New criticism (don"t use this approach; e. g. lancelot -> must work with the whole book instead of isolating the chapter (all of malory); why this reflection of lancelot/tragic. New historicism -> writers do not simply reflect, but they also react -> works embedded in context (use this approach) Feminist theory/approach -> intersectional (power dynamics, race, class, marxism) Arthur dies (not the end of the world) less magic.
