... tells people how to behave. He said proletariats don't have ideology so they didn't revolt. New Historicism New historicism leaning more towards a post-structuralism in its focus on power on the discourses that serve as vehicle for power. New historicism rejects the autonomy and individual genius of author and they see literary text as absolutely inseparable from their historical ... context. A simple definition of new historicism is that it is a method based on the parallel reading of literary of literary and non literary texts, usually of the same historical period. New historicist say...

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