The New Historicism

Target entity: The New Historicism
Context triple: [University of California Press, notableSeries, The New Historicism]

• A. New Criticism
  New Criticism is a 20th-century literary theory movement that emphasizes close reading and analysis of a text’s formal elements while downplaying authorial intent and historical context.
• B. New Formalism
  New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
• C. History as a Novel, the Novel as History
  "History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
• D. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
• E. The Teaching of Literature
  The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: The New Historicism
Target entity description: The New Historicism is a critical movement in literary theory that interprets texts through the lens of their historical and cultural contexts, emphasizing the interplay of power, discourse, and ideology.

• A. New Criticism
  New Criticism is a 20th-century literary theory movement that emphasizes close reading and analysis of a text’s formal elements while downplaying authorial intent and historical context.
• B. New Formalism
  New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
• C. History as a Novel, the Novel as History
  "History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
• D. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
• E. The Teaching of Literature
  The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
• F. None of above. chosen