the leading characters. CULTURAL MATERIALISM: - A critical practice that concentrates on the interventions whereby men and women make heir own history and situate the literary text in the political situation of our own (and not of its own day as New Historicists do). - It reads the literary text in a way as to enable us to “recover histories”. - It uses the technique of close textual analysis but often employ structuralist and post-structuralist techniques. - It works mainly within traditional
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http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable degree everywhere
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1. George Orwell’s Classic 1984 depicts a totalitarian government that aims to repress and control its people. It does this in many ways; the most notable are the destruction of the family structure‚ destruction of language and the most dangerous the rewriting of history. With these tools—and others not mentioned—The Party maintains control of its people and ensures its continued existence. The Party aims to replace the love a person has for a family with itself. It does this in two significant
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English 10 Semester Project Soundtrack based upon the novel 1984 by George Orwell Track #1 Song: Satellite Artist: Guster Album: Ganging Up On the Sun Shining like a work of art Hanging on a wall of stars Are you what I think you are? You’re my satellite You’re riding with me tonight Passenger side‚ lighting the sky Always the first star that I find You’re my satellite Elevator to the moon Whistling our favorite tune Trying to
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1984 Research Paper Behind every technological device lies the government‚ yes the government is behind every device that Americans use. Ever considered to what extent we use our smartphones‚ smart screens‚ laptops? And how much information those devices gather from each individual. Where does that information go? And what would they want to do with that information? Devices these days like smartphones have become super computers at the palm of your hands‚ which can do so many tasks as taking pictures
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In George Orwell’s 1984‚ the world has been portrayed in a poverty-stricken dystopian society with three different nations waging a perpetual war. In the movie The Matrix directed by Lana Wachowski‚ the world is machine controlled. Humans are kept in a deep sleep‚ without realizing that their reality is false. They are similar because both depict the absolute control that a government has over its own people and the control over reality. They are different in that Winston’s true reality was eventually
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New Historical and Cultural Criticism in The Great Gatsby Main characteristics of New Historicism • • • • • • There are no facts – just interpretations (Tyson 286) Power circulates from all social levels at all time (Tyson 287) “history is neither linear (…) nor progressive (…)” (Tyson 287) no universal spirit of an age – always opposition (Tyson 287) analysis of history is always subjective (Tyson 287) Individual and culture define each other (Tyson 287) New historicism applied
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George Orwell’s 1984 Introduction- This story takes place in a state called Oceania. The main characters introduced are Winston Smith who is a worker on one of the four branches of government on Oceania. This four branches are "The Ministry of Truth" where they falsificate or remove all past documents such as books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ records‚ tapes and anything containing information about the past and are rewritten with the "accurate" meaning of whatever the Government (known as " Big Brother")
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world of 1984. The novel 1984 written by George Orwell is about a totalitarian government who oppresses its people and controls all aspects of their lives. The government is symbolized by Big Brother‚ people are monitored their entire day for flaws in their thinking towards Big Brother. I believe that privacy of American citizens is being violated and that people should not give up aspects of their personal privacy for greater good of society. The book 1984 was written by Orwell to caution
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The Terrorist Surveillance Program : Orwell’s 1984 Is Alive Where the National Security Agency (NSA) stands in our world has often been compared to the state of surveillance in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Privacy in our world and in the novel’s world is something that makes you wonder if privacy no longer exists. In our society the NSA always spies on us through are devices with people having no clue that they are invading there privacy. In Oceania‚ privacy is something that no longer exists
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