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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 61

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple select

Compared with traditional historicism, New Historicism does which of the following?

  1. Rejects a wholly objective,linear account of historical events.
  2. Avoids a strict hierarchy separating literary from nonliterary texts.
  3. Takes particular interest in the textualisation of the material world.
  4. Treats history only as background context for literary works.

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Correct answer: (A) Rejects a wholly objective,linear account of historical events.; (B) Avoids a strict hierarchy separating literary from nonliterary texts.; (C) Takes particular interest in the textualisation of the material world.

Explanation

New Historicism reads literary and nonliterary texts as participating in historically situated networks of power and representation. It questions transparent historical narration(A), uses diverse textual materials(B), and studies mediation of material realities(C). D reduces history to a passive backdrop, contrary to that reciprocal account. Select A,B,C.

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