What is Historical Criticism? (Tim Nance)

source: Tim Nance     2015年3月2日
A lecture from Literary Criticism.

"Tell my story" - The human compulsion to narrate by Stephen Greenblatt

source: Videnskabernes Selskab     2014年6月2日
Stephen Greenblatt is one of the world's leading literary theorists and Shakespeare scholars. He is often regarded as the main founder of New Historicism, a term he first used in his 1982 introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance; he himself has referred to New Historicism as 'cultural poetics'. The approach has been one of the most influential strands of literary criticism over the last decades and has had an immense impact on English literary history. Greenblatt has published widely on literary theory and within the fields of cultural, Renaissance and Shakespeare studies. His 2004 biography of Shakespeare, Will in the World: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, was on the New York Times Best Seller List for nine weeks, and he has won several prestigious prizes and awards, among them the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Stephen Greenblatt - Shakespeare's Freedom (2010)

source: WGBHForum    2012年9月5日
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt discusses his book, "Shakespeare's Freedom," presented by Harvard Book Store. Greenblatt discusses how Shakespeare was averse to the authorities of his time -- religion, monarchs, and social structure -- and how this spirit manifested itself in his work. More lectures at http://forum-network.org
This talk took place on November 15, 2010.

New Historicism by Paul Fry at Yale U (2009)

source: YaleCourses    2009年9月1日
Lecture 19 of Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)
In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines the work of two seminal New Historicists, Stephen Greenblatt and Jerome McGann. The origins of New Historicism in Early Modern literary studies are explored, and New Historicism's common strategies, preferred evidence, and literary sites are explored. Greenblatt's reliance on Foucault is juxtaposed with McGann's use of Bakhtin. The lecture concludes with an extensive consideration of the project of editing of Keats's poetry in light of New Historicist concerns.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism
06:16 - Chapter 2. The New Historicist Method and Foucault
10:56 - Chapter 3. The Reciprocal Relationship Between History and Discourse
19:24 - Chapter 4. The Historian and Subjectivity
26:12 - Chapter 5. Jerome McGann and Bakhtin
30:28 - Chapter 6. McGann on Keats
45:54 - Chapter 7. Tony the Tow Truck Revisited
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.

Modeling Deconstruction and New Historicism--Benjamin Hagen

source: Benjamin Hagen    2014年9月28日
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 3.3—Modeling Deconstruction and New Historicism
In this video, I wrap up this lecture series by modeling an "ideal" deconstructive reading of Mary Robinson's "A London Summer Morning" and by anticipating a new historicist account of the poem. I end the video by summarizing the different accounts that each mode of criticism made possible.
In this video, I allude to a lecture I posted last year on the "Tendencies of Deconstructive Criticism." Here's a link to that video: http://youtu.be/9GZ2ZNnm2DU?list=PLFl....
I also mention several histories at the end of this video. Here are links to those books:
Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: http://goo.gl/kl7TK5
Hanoverian London, 1714-1808: http://goo.gl/gvYPnP
A New Historical Geography of England After 1600: http://goo.gl/4F61a6
An Essay on the Principle of Population: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4239/4...

Introduction to Theory of Literature with Paul H. Fry at Yale University (Spring 2009)

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source: YaleCourses   Last updated on 2014年7月1日

Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)
This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

1. Introduction 39:29
2. Introduction (cont.) 46:31
3. Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle 46:44
4. Configurative Reading 52:14
5. The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork 46:25
6. The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms 50:07
7. Russian Formalism 48:57
8. Semiotics and Structuralism 51:31
9. Linguistics and Literature 49:54
10. Deconstruction I 51:43
11. Deconstruction II 52:58
12. Freud and Fiction 50:40
13. Jacques Lacan in Theory 51:10
14. Influence 51:17
15. The Postmodern Psyche 52:50
16. The Social Permeability of Reader and Text 50:10
17. The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory 51:37
18. The Political Unconscious 53:46
19. The New Historicism 53:22
20. The Classical Feminist Tradition 52:25
21. African-American Criticism 53:58
22. Post-Colonial Criticism 54:42
23. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity 49:55
24. The Institutional Construction of Literary Study 50:53
25. The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism 53:33
26. Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now? 49:48

another source: http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300#sessions
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Introduction (cont.)
Lecture 3 Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
Lecture 4 Configurative Reading
Lecture 5 The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
Lecture 6 The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
Lecture 7 Russian Formalism
Lecture 8 Semiotics and Structuralism
Lecture 9 Linguistics and Literature
Lecture 10 Deconstruction I
Lecture 11 Deconstruction II
Lecture 12 Freud and Fiction
Lecture 13 Jacques Lacan in Theory
Lecture 14 Influence
Lecture 15 The Postmodern Psyche
Lecture 16 The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
Lecture 17 The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
Lecture 18 The Political Unconscious
Lecture 19 The New Historicism
Lecture 20 The Classical Feminist Tradition
Lecture 21 African-American Criticism
Lecture 22 Post-Colonial Criticism
Lecture 23 Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
Lecture 24 The Institutional Construction of Literary Study
Lecture 25 The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism
Lecture 26 Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?