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Literature and History (3): Michel Foucault:

Literature and History (3): Michel Foucault:. His Views on History & New Historicism. Q & A . (Discourse  Power and Subjectivity) What do you know about Foucault so far? (Discourse  history )

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Literature and History (3): Michel Foucault:

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  1. Literature and History (3):Michel Foucault: His Views on History & New Historicism

  2. Q & A (Discourse  Power and Subjectivity) • What do you know about Foucault so far? (Discourse  history) • What does it mean to say that Foucault “historicize discourse” and “textualize history” (textbook: 116) • Why is history not ‘linear’ for Foucault?

  3. Foucault: traditional historicism vs. Archaelogy • Traditional Historicism – the ‘past’ as a unified entity, with coherent development and organized by fixed categories such as ‘author,’‘spirit,’‘period’ and ‘nation.’ • History as Archive: intersections of multiple discourses, with gaps and discontinuity, like book stacks in a library.  archeology: a painstaking rediscovery of struggles

  4. Foucault: “historicize discourse” • Every sentiment is in a certain discourse, and thus historically conditioned. Textbook 117 • effective history: • knowledge as perspective, with slant and limitations; • working ‘without constants; • Working not to discover ‘ourselves,’ but to introduce discontinuity in histories as well as in us.

  5. Thick Description • To “sort out the structures [discourses] of signification” • Cultures, people and texts, all as ‘ensemble of texts.’ (121)

  6. Context as Con-texts • Traditional view World Work: symbols, Characters, Allegory, etc.

  7. Context as Con-texts Episteme • N-H view

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