1. New Historicism 1.Situates literary object within historical discursive network. 2.Language creates world; language part of history itself. 3.Literary object is part of historical moment; a “slice” of the historical. 4.Transcendence/Universal is itself a historically mediated and specific discourse

2. Is literature different? New Criticism: autonomy of the work of art relative to its creation Structuralism: myth-making part of culture, but myth a form of ideology derived from signifying processes Deconstruction: play of language/difference specific to language, and always in troubled relation to historical representation.

3. Is Literature different II? New Historicism: finds in literary object occasion to reflect on its historical construction. Literary analysis pursues the discursive background or operative network in the interpretation of literature. No ontological privileging of the literary