Michaels’ book demonstrates New Historicist method without traditional themes

Evidence

This extended demonstration of New Historicist form (or “method”) has the additional interest for us of being staged without the scaffolding of traditional or conventional “themes,” such as the “self” in Greenblatt’s pioneering work (even though the occasional gesture toward a thematics of “writing,” as in the introduction, seems designed misleadingly to reassure the reader that we are embarked on a more familiar enterprise). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Useful for the reader’s cognitive-map exercise: what does a critical method that abandons the ‘self’ theme reveal about the analyst’s own situatedness? — connects to: New Historicism works offer competing historical and methodological readings — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 434; Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: New Historicism works offer competing historical and methodological readings — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 434; Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205