Historicizing literature anew

Green and LeBihan describes how Stephen Greenblatt and other New Historicists (Greenblatt’s term) looked at history “not in terms of discrete episodes forming an homogeneous whole, but as fractured, subjective, and above all textual” [italics provided] (112).
Green and LeBihan says that with this realization of the textuality of history, “[literature] and history are therefore no [...]

Going beyond linguistic texts

You may come across such terms as “the vocabulary of film” or “the grammar of TV documentaries,” and of critics/theorists talking about “reading fashion.”
Why, you may wonder, are these linguistic and literary terms used to describe media that in their final product may not necessarily employ language?
Well, some structuralist scholars took Saussure to heart when [...]