New Historicism: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around New Historicism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who used the word “chiastically” when talking about “the poststructuralist orientation to history now emerging in literary studies,” which they saw as meaning “ as a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history”?
Marjorie Levinson
Jerome McGann
Louis Adrian Montrose
Stephen Greenblatt
Q. Who talked about every expressive act being “embedded in a network of materialist practices”?
Harold Aram Veeser
Catherine Gallagher
Clifford Geertz
Raymond Williams
Q. Who said, “The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong”?
Michel Foucault
Marjorie Levinson
Jerome McGann
Clifford Geertz
Q. Who said, “Language, like other sign systems, is a collective construction”?
Michel Foucault
Louis Adrian Montrose
Stephen Greenblatt
Catherine Gallagher
Q. Who said, “[P]oems are social and historical products and…the critical study of such products must be grounded in a socio-historical analytic”?
Marjorie Levinson
Jerome McGann
Raymond Williams
Stephen Greenblatt