Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest (PDF)

CHAPTER 1 Critical models of cultural historicism for Iberian history and historiography (p. 1)

1.1 Cultural textuality and cultural interpretation: History as context, inter text, and metatext

The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed important developments in cultural- literary theory as well as in medieval and renaissance cultural studies.

Among new critical points of reference one finds these collections: the revised MLA manual for modern languages and literatures edited by Gibaldi 1992, new cultural-literary studies edited by Greenblatt &, Gunn 1992, new philology edited by Nichols 1990 and new medievalism edited by Brownlee &, Nichols 1991, contemporary critical concepts edited by Lentricchia and McLaughlin 1990, new historicism edited by Hunt 1989 and Veeser 1989, Renaissance historicism edited by Kinney &, Collins 1987, and Spanish Golden Age cultural-textual discourses edited by Godzich &, Spadaccini 1986.

What these critical developments (based on work undertaken by semioticians and historicists of previous decades) have in common is a turning away from the positivism and formalism of earlier twentieth-century scholarship and a return to the more broadly defined rhetorical and cultural approaches to the study of texts that characterize much of classical, medieval, Renaissance, and modern traditions of interpretation.

Like most academic revolutions, the varieties of contemporary theory, such as new historicism and new medievalism, amount to an attempt to revise a whole area of studies, redefine critical purposes and methods, and restore what are perceived to be the most authentic and comprehensive bases of scholarship: for the humanities, these now appear to be hermeneutical issues in cultural studies.

For those who may not be aware of just what is involved in the passage into the poststructuralist and postdeconstructionist era of contemporary theory, it is helpful to concentrate on shifting

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