1、2100 单词， 11500 英文字符， 4300 汉字 出处： Doan E. New Historicism and Renaissance Culture*J+. Ankara niversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Corafya Fakltesi Dergisi, 2005, 45(1): 77-95. 原文 NEW HISTORICISM AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE Evrim Dogan Although this new form of historicism centers history as the subject of research,
2、it differs from the old in its understanding of history. While traditional historicism regards history as universal, new historicism considers it to be cultural. According to Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J.Reynolds, new historicism can be differentiated from old historicism by its lack of faith in objec
3、tivity and permanence and its stress not upon the direct recreation of the past, but rather the process by which the past is constructed or invented (1993: 4). This new outlook on history also brings about a new outlook on literature and literary criticism. Traditional literary historicism holds tha
4、t the proper aim of literary criticism is to attempt to reconstruct the past objectively, whereas new historicism suggests that history is only knowable in the same sense literature isthrough subjective interpretation: our understanding of the past is always conducted by our present consciousnesss.
5、Louis Montrose, in his Professing the Renaissance, lays out that as critics we are historically bound and we may only reconstruct the histories through the filter of our consciousness: Our analyses and our understandings necessarily proceed from our own historically, socially and institutionally sha
6、ped vantage points; that the histories we reconstruct are the textual constructs of critics who are, ourselves, historical subjects (1989: 23). For Montrose, contemporary historicism must recognize that not only the poet but also the critic exists in history and that the texts are inscriptions of history and furthermore that our comprehension, representation, interpretation of the texts of the past always proceeds by a mixture of estrangement and appropriation
