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Chapter Objectives1.A reaction against the predominantly ahistorical approach of contemporary poststructuralist criticism; |
2.Inspired (in part) by the unorthodox historiography of French historian Michel Foucault and by the work of cultural materialist critics like Raymond Williams; |
3.Distinguished from Old Historicist criticism by its incorporation of postructuralist premises (the anti-essentialist view of history, for example, and the view that all knowledge is socially constructed). |
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