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An Overview (Historical Criticism)
Benefits
Origins
Characteristics (Biographical Criticism)
Random Facts
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How the history effects the work/"the world behind the text".
What is Historical Criticism?
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You need background knowledge.
What must be known to understand books through the lens of Historical Criticism?
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Use of Historical Criticism began in this century.
What is the the 11th century?
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This is what a biographical critique aims to do.
Analyzes the effects and influences of the writer's life on his/her work?
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Shows the history of contact between black Africans and English men in the first act.
What does Shakespeare's Othello show in regards to black Africans and English men?
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Society, economy and politics during that time period.
What is Historical Criticism affected by?
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Understanding the author's life helps.
What helps understand the literary work?
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Biographical critiques date back to this time period.
What is the Renaissance Period?
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This is a common misconception about biographical criticism.
What is the retelling of the author's life?
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Hippolyte Taine said this.
Who said 'History had been transformed...by the study of literature'?
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By understanding the time it takes place in, the problems, anxieties, and biases of the time period.
How do we use Historical Criticism to understand literature?
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Why some critics believe some of the world's great and lasting pieces of literature have lasted so long.
What is important of timeless significance?
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This man used biographical critiques heavily in "The Lives of Poets".
Who is Samuel Johnson?
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Biographical criticism is often confused with this.
Historical criticism?
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The year Shakespeare's Othello was written.
What is significant about the year 1604?
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We can observe connections between the work and the world at that time.
Why is understanding what was happening during the time period the work important?
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The author's personal background, environment, and historic era
A historical critic would believe that all artworks are determined by what?
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They century in which Historical Criticism became popular.
What is the 19th/20th Century?
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Author's life that may be reflected in their literary work.
Who is Charles Dickens/John Steinbeck/Walt Whitman/William Shakespeare?
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It can be viewed in Shakespeare's Hamlet through the eyes of a historical critic.
What is the Political Status of the Elizabethan Era.
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The interpretation of a work will mutate over time and, be perverted from the interpretation the author intended.
What happens as a result of the ever changing attitudes of society?
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In the way it focuses on the individual.
What is the main way literature can illuminate history?
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Several things that a biographical critique aims to do.
What are connecting characters, clarifying literally allusions, and understanding themes in relation to the author?