Foucault’s Concept of History and New Historicism: Points of Convergence

This paper attempts to explore the impact of Michael Foucault's theoretical understanding history on New Historicism, a literary school that developed in North America later part twentieth century. While Foucault is known throughout academia for his extraordinarily wide range interests, this aims only focus radical perspective and show how linked vital way development new historicist strategies, highly innovative themselves, seriously challenge, if not redefine, traditional humanist interpretation literature. Attempt therefore has been made examine Foucault’s 'epistemic break' 'archeological' model as 'discontinuity' remain important points reference textuality, authorship, theatre culture at large. discussing historicism, largely draws upon opinions Greenblatt Montrose, two pioneering theorists school.