... their gaze into a series of ruptures, as if all aesthetic moves were versions of surrealistic disruptions of history and they were avant-garde scholars. Joel Fineman noted the way New Historicism broke history into discontinuous anecdotes.2 Catherine Gallagher and Greenblatt bragged that their anec- 2...

... in contemporary fiction and TV. She also discusses her career, beginning as a New Historicist, and her current project constructing a print-and-web anthology of American Literature in the World . © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Wai Chee Dimock American literature global literature New Historicism...

... , January 2 , 2017 . https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-neoliberalism-reactionary-populism-nancy-fraser . Graff Gerald . 1989 . “ Co-optation .” In The New Historicism , edited by Veeser H. Aram , 168 – 181 . New York : Routledge . Hackworth Jason...

... and often with productive effects of intellectual tension had filled the history of our disci- pline during the second half of the twentieth century, from New Criticism to structuralism, from structuralism to Marxism, from Marxism and structural- ism to deconstruction and New Historicism, from...

..., David. Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Gallagher, Catherine, and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Gibson, Jeremy, and Julian Wolfreys. Peter...

..., Anglo- phone literature departments have seen a steady drift from an apparently “new” historicism—one that would refute the teleologies and symmetries of historicisms past—to something like a resurrection of the “old” histori- cisms, whereby the merest archival detail—an act of parliament, a previ...

... of a “new historicism” in literary studies that sought the meaning of a work in the social and historical context out of which it was written.22 Its analogue was a political theory that insisted on seeing the great theorists not as disembodied participants in timeless debates...

... to be, the one where we have split off the sciences from the humani- ties. We need a Real Historicism, not this fake New Historicism we’re stuck with. A Real Historicism would see a culture having powerful unifying prac- tices, some common way of life, a life lived within what Martin Heideg- ger called...

... of what James Holstun described as a “tendency to claim a premature totalization of early modern culture on the basis of an immanent analysis of canonical literary works” (“Ranting at the New Historicism,” English Literary Renaissance 19, no. 2 [March 1989]: 189–225, esp. 192). For the latest...

... for philosophers. In Russia today, unfortunately or not, no one is exiled for new historicism, the linguistic turn, or symbolic anthropology. But the greater irony is this: many of those who would dismiss Etkind, Kozlov, Proskurin, and Zorin as “slavishly” imitating Western models are precisely those...

...- tions of all three. These are lessons affect theorists who tarry in musical locales need to remember. 8. History vs. Historicism: Meillassoux The revival of Whitehead and his prehensions and the new object-­ oriented ontology of Harman are aspects of the recent development...

..., materialist thinking was not really at any time the informing core of his approach. Not greatly in conversation with British cultural materialism, or even with its pallid shadow, the New Historicism, despite his sojourns in Cambridge and Berkeley, Deane was above all a historian of ideas. Those ideas appear...

... philology (O, 120–21). Accord- ing to this model, the Orientalist himself becomes the new God, creating ‘‘the Orient’’ as a culturally reified, historicized object of research, and, in the process, legitimating the ‘‘modern’’ heuristics and doxologies of philology, history, and translation...

... historiography and film by working through the ex- plicit and implicit comparisons made between the 1930s–1940s and the 1990s in China.5 In the first section, I examine how 1990s’ historiographical 2. Peter Osborne, The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (New York: Verso, 1995), 44. 3. Rancière...

..., 2012. Case, Kristen. American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. Cassano, Franco. Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean. Trans. Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme. New York: Fordham University Press...

... cultural interpreters and theorists. There was also a new and (as of this writing) ongoing multivolume set of translations appearing as Benjamin’s Selected Writings from Harvard University Press. While focused on The Arcades...

... that which is true, is safe 3. Adorno, Prisms, 31. 4. Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 216–40. Helmling / ‘‘Immanent Critique’’ and ‘‘Dialectical Mimesis’’ 101 from perversion...

... seemed obso- lete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed’’ (3). 3. Pheng Cheah, Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). The difference between Cheah and radical subalternism is his...

... is “De l’archive II: La refutation” [On the archive II: Refutation] and is the third chapter of my The Historiographic Perversion , trans. Gil Anidjar (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). On the Archive III: The Secret; or, Borges at Yale...

... and Edward Aveling, based on the 3rd German edition, ed. Frederick Engels (New York: Appleton, 1887), 736. Morris / The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation 33 formulation that Marx himself rejected in his report to the Central Coun- cil meetings of June 20 and 27, 1865...