Stephen Greenblatt

New Historicism, the American branch of Cultural Poetics, was coined in 1982 by Stephen Greenblatt along with many other scholars believe that one’s culture permeates both texts and critics. Because all of society is inextricably interwoven with the culture of the time in which the texts are produced. So each critic will formulate a unique interpretation for any given text. (Bressler, pp.188) To put it bluntly, New Historicism considers works of literature as historical texts and joins the study

which in it of itself is impossible as we do not have access to every bit of information, especially that of the “losers” of events. Like Stephen Greenblatt, father of New Historicism, once put it in his book Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, “We simply do not know what was thought in silence” (35). To counteract this problem, Greenblatt culminated ideas of Historicism, Marxism, and Cultural Criticism into a single body, and in this, he understood that not only can we understand

Oscar Wilde, in his memoirs penned within the walls of Reading Gaol, described the British penal system of the 19th century as an ‘unchangeable pattern’ of ‘paralysing immobility’. British law required prisons to uphold three simple ideals: ‘Hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed’ and for the likes of Oscar Wilde and other prisoners within the Gaol walls, life was a seemingly infinite silent torture. Inside 19th Century Goal, prisoners were expected to learn the values of tough work to earn a living

will explore the tenants of New Historicism and apply it to the story, and then we will explore the tenants of Deconstruction and apply it to the story. The ideals of New Historicism were first outlined by Michel Foucault and later developed by Stephen Greenblatt. Foucault did not develop New Historicism; however, his philosophy and ideas formed the basis of the practice. As Warren Hedges has noted, Foucault’s contribution to literary studies has been to encourage us to think about how no writer’s

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking despite the consequences that may transpire from performing the action. In today’s society we tend to look at the easiest way to complete a task or the easiest way to make money despite employing the use of integrity. Your value of integrity typically portrays what type of person you are. The people you social with have an immense impact on your value of integrity. Integrity is the value you put on life, which is typically determined by the

spent some time wondering what influenced William Shakespeare to write this play. In the article “The Death of Hamnet and the making of Hamlet” Stephen Greenblatt states, “I will attempt in what follows to trace Hamlet back to a personal experience of grief and to sketch a long-term aesthetic strategy that seems to have emerged from this experience.” Greenblatt creates a strong argument and purpose for writing this article; however, he does not explicitly use the disabilities studies approach. By looking

A Clean Well-Lighted Place A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway looks at age from the viewpoint of an inexperienced and experienced individual, with the aid of an old man to emphasize the difference between the two. This story takes place late one night in a caf. The caf is clean, pleasant, and well lighted, which brings some kind of comfort to the atmosphere. Here in the caf sits a deaf, lonely, older man, who although is deaf can feel the difference that the night brings to the

Return on capital is the metric that shows whether a business is a good one or not. Earnings yield is the metric that shows whether a company is cheap or not. Greenblatt suggests using these measures to identify good but cheap businesses, and buy them. That’s the secret behind the ‘magic formula’. In “The Little Book That Beats The Market,” Greenblatt calculated hypothetical returns for the 1988-2004 period. The magic formula returned an average 30.8% per year, while the market return was 12.3% and the

the Market” by Joel Greenblatt I believe everyone is capable of learning how to make money for themselves after the advice given on the value of investing. Greenblatt communicates in a form of storytelling into a conversation as he discusses how if you truly trust something and believe on it then it will help you and it can work towards your advantage. In this case, it is believing that the famous magic formula truly works in order to help you make money. At first, Greenblatt helps us understand

Most people have felt lesser than someone else. In most cases, this is uncomfortable and gives a feeling of insecurity, but it’s also a part of developing and finding yourself. However, a lot of people have felt this insecurity since the start of their youth. This is what the story “My Polish Teacher’s Tie” by Helen Dunmore from 2000 is about. It is about the protagonist’s life as a Part-time catering staff and how her life develops. Half polish, uniform, a blue overall and a white cap with the