ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Historicism, Historical Criticism, Stephen Greenblatt
20 Jan 2016
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Living with out passion equated to death. His mother is one the dead , spiritually so, joyce wants to reject system that had killed her. Felt humiliated when anyone attacked his impoverished country . Using simplicity of a list, using simplistic categorization. The weight of the american war chest. Moves in to the interior of the self. Artificial attachment of intangible feelings to tangible photos (of. A figure of speech in which the same word is applied to two other in. Zeugma greek for yoking or bonding different senses. She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass . She had nothing on but a necklace and the radio . Approaches literary work through its historical context: social factors, religious influences, levels of scientific achievement (earlier science fiction, economic events (great depression, grapes of wrath, cultural assumptions, intellectual ideas. Historically discrete periods (both american and british) Uses history to interpret a work of literature.
