Document Type : Original Article
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Ph.D candidate in Persian language and literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran
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Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran(Corresponding Author)
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Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Foreign Languages, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran
Abstract
New Historicism in literary studies means adopting a post-structuralist approach in reading the text. This approach, which is based on postmodernist ideas, has a completely interdisciplinary nature. This research aims to investigate and scientifically explain its interdisciplinary nature with a descriptive-analytical method. In order to achieve this and of course to dwell more on a precise and narrow point, in this essay, we will try to recognize and identify one of the key terms of this approach, namely " Anecdote ", as limited to and based on the article " Counterhistory And The Anecdote " by Steven Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher. The use of anecdote, in addition to revealing one of the interdisciplinary aspects of this approach, also clearly shows its type of textualism: unlike New Criticism, this approach, does not focus on a specific text. New Historicism sees and reads a literary text with marginal texts, i.e. anecdotes. This method makes reading the text more satisfying, satisfaction arising from a different and more complete reading compared to other approaches and methods in criticism. The story, which has an counterhistorical nature, can come from the critic's own memories of life or from marginal texts, literary or non-literary, written or non-written. New Historicists use anecdotes to destroy the sequence and course of thought of the macro-narrative and to question what the macro-narrative considers reality. In this way, they create a new narrative and reveal a different reality.
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