The Exeter English department is way, way more into something that seems like a fanatic form of New Historicism, where they study a work practically exclusively in relation to historic events at the time of its writing, the life of the author, other books written around the time, other examples of the genre, etc. etc.
Uh oh. As someone who is nearly a fanatic about New Criticism, I am a little worried by this. :)
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Date: 2005-05-25 03:21 am (UTC)Uh oh. As someone who is nearly a fanatic about New Criticism, I am a little worried by this. :)