Originating from the fields of philosophy and history, term historicism is often used by architectural historians. Aiming to contribute theoretical framework for analysis historicism, paper first explores meaning concept in its native field history. The aligned with recent scholarship which interprets as a worldview deduces three historicist principles - holism, individuality, development. This...

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

Contemporary changes in historical culture associated with various states of modernity actualize the problem foundations and prerequisites historicism as a principle thinking characteristic modern societies. The ancient background consists primarily advanced concepts time eternity , which contain potential variability understanding historicity philosophy culture. At same time, world remained on...

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...

In this introduction to the forum Quirk Historicism, the editors describe the recent tendency of music scholars, in the wake of New Historicism, to avail themselves of objets trouvés and historical micronarratives for interpretation. Representations 132. Fall 2015 © The Regents of the University of California. ISSN 0734-6018, electronic ISSN 1533-855X, pages 61–78. All rights reserved. Direct r...

This paper examines the intersection and synergy between Alter/Native criticism New Historicism in context of second-generation Nigerian poets. Alter/ Native focuses on indigenous literary traditions, cultural contexts, oral histories, while explores interplay literature historical conditions. By applying these critical approaches to works poets novelists, such as Niyi Osundare, Chinua Achebe, ...

This essay considers how we might come to understand social constructionism sociologically. It examines a number of related approaches to gender and sexuality that speak to sociological concerns and might be termed social constructionist: historicism, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and materialist feminism. By recognising that social constructionism is multifarious rather than unifie...