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Abstract

“New Historicism” is the form of literary theory, which evolved in
the early 1980s. Its goal is to recoganise the literature, and the
literature through its cultural background. Stephen Greenblatt coined
the term New Historicism, based on the philosophy of Michel
Foucault. This theory follows that 1950’s area of history of the ideas
which cites to itself as a formation of “cultural poetics”. New
Historicism concedes not only that a task of literature is influenced by
its writer’s ages and situations. But the critic’s response to that task is
also influenced by his milieu prejudices and beliefs. It also represents
a sustained negociation of those compeicated textual political and
cultural forces that intervene between the present and past, now and
then. New Historicism embraces and acknowledges the idea that as
the time changes, so will our understanding of great literature