NOVI ISTORIZAM I ENGLESKA RENESANSA
NEW HISTORICISM AND ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents new historicism, a critical practice founded in the early 1980s. New historicist readings are based on the synchronic study of both literary and non-literary texts that belong to a cultural system. These readings exclude the analysis of ideas, literary genres and motifs isolated from the wider social context. The focus of new historicism is on the political context and function of literary works and on the text as a factor of historical events. However, the scope of new historicism interest includes culture, society, politics, institutions, living conditions of social classes and genders, and social and material context. The presented views and analyses from the works of the most influential new historicists, primarily Stephen Greenblatt, represent a new kind of perception of the English renaissance literature from the standpoint of the relations between power, politics, and other social relations and conditions of the early modern age.

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