Reciprocal Concern With Text And History In New Historicism

The relationship between text and history in New Historicism includes two points: the historicity of texts and the textuality of history,which constitute the cornerstone of the practice of new-historicism.Starting from the reciprocal concern of the history and text,new Historicism reveals the social historical content contained in all the texts,as well as the literary factors contained in history.Thus the new historicism extended their criticism to a wider cultural field.As a literary criticism school,New Historicism has its own inheritance,it absorbed and integrated the theories of many disciplines,conforms to the development of the times and emerged in the eighties of the last century.New historicism is called the new,first of all,it reflected in its text criticism of the social and historical visual.In the following three aspects,the creation of the text,the spread of the text,the impact of the text on the society,New historicism deeply excavates the sociohistorical factors behind the text.By influencing the author,the socio-historical infuses the social energy into the texts,and lays down the historical imprint at the beginning of the creation of the text.And after the transformation of time and space,the text also be influenced by the socio-historical,which reflected in the position,content and understanding of the text.Finally,by transferring its own social energy tosociety,the text will in turn affect the process of history and the development of society.As a result,New Historicism formed an extremely flowing cultural space.New Historicism,which intended to distinguish with the traditional historicism,is similar to the narrative historicism in the late 20 th century in its attitude towards history.First of all,the text is the only way to history,posterity can understand the past only with the help of previous texts.second,historical writing and literary text has great similarity,it also needs plot arrangement and artistic effect.There is a poetic structure in itself,so it can not be a scientific language,but it can be fictional,hermeneutic and contemporary.After reciprocal concerning with the text and the history,New Historicism broke through the problem of text isolation and historical determinism in the past literary studies,and inevitably fell into a paradoxical situation.New historicism,which consistently preaches anti-dogma and anti-formalism,forms their unique mode of criticism in the "reciprocal concern" with text and history.At the same time,the boundary of literature and literary study both be constantly broken,and the historical perspective of literary criticism also brings about the lack of aesthetic dimension.