(mythological), marxist, feminist/gender, and many more. The true purposes of literary criticism are to help us resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading, to help us decide which is the better of two conflicting readings, and to enable us to form judgments about literature. New historicism criticism is set out to find the meaning in a text by considering the work within the framework of a prevailing idea(s) and assumptions of its historical era. It explores the historical, social, political…
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