Thesis Sentence 3 Examples

[on Murfin's account of NH]:While the new historicists may vary on their approaches, their willingness to embrace ideas from other disciplines such as sociology and anthropology, allows them to revolutionize history and its importance in/to literature.--Jerry

Othello the character, like Othello the story, is a presumed space that is in fact denoted by fluctuating borders--and what lies beyond those
borders--as much as by what is supposedly contained within; in other words, a closer approximation of plausibility or believality only exists
when we go beyond the surface-level, old-school conventions of (selective) coherence (theme, structure, image) and look at the deeper historical
context surrounding and engaging with the story: a plurality of contests--dissident or marginalized cultural elements interacting with the
prevailing cultural institutions--therefore, are a critical aspect of the story's validity and reveal an ongoing exchange in which characters,
author, audience; and ideas, values, events and customs included and excluded (the elements of historical context)--and even undesirables such
as the literary critic--are all players seeking both belief and to be believed on the crowded stage.--Mike

New historic perspectives on texts, and to a greater degree, the entire realm of humanities and liberal education, emphasizes the value of
contextual and comprehensive approaches to reading and learning in general and revises the perception and action of translation from a
zero-sum game into a synergistic search for meaning and application.--Clayn

Literature may lend itself more naturally to criticism which critiques the text in the context of ideologically created social orders because
the text often contains the culturally scripted dominant order and the dominant voices against such an order in a place of crux, where fissures
of power play an important role and can be easily identified.--Alli

New Historicism is a revolution-like change in the art of interpretation that allowed us to revise masses of axiomatic knowledge; however, this method might be potentially harmful if the reader yields the urge to put a derogatory label on a book that was written before we came to understand certain issues of history, culture, politics, etc. in the way we do it today.--Iana

Literary works are examined by New Critics as if they are “self-contained” or “self-referential,” with no connections between the author and the piece or historical connotations that might be derived from the piece, instead concentrating on the relationships within the piece; however, this criticism is flawed because the work cannot be properly studied without understanding the correlation of the author’s relationship to the piece and the author’s personal connection to the relationships within the piece, as a result of the author’s un-self-contained writing style.--Molly