1. The "new":
New historicism includes the surroundings of the author, the influences they might have been subjected to in its focus, instead of dealing only with the content of the work, the data included in it which is characteristic to the traditional approach. The personal opinion of the critic does not need to be omitted.
2. Analysing literary works from such perspective:
The literary work should be criticized and studied not as a single entity, but the analysis requires taking into consideration the author themselves (their personality, beliefs, personal history), as well as the influence of the environment on the creation of the literary work, and the critic's subjective view.
3. Literature and historiography
Historiography studies the methods various historians used to describe historical events in their work - this might be done for the purpose of discovering different perspectives, and revealing how and whether the accounts change due to time frame, the author's origins, etc. Therefore, a part of historiography - works of literature describing historical events - is interchangeably included in literature itself, and can be interpreted and analysed from a chosen literary perspective.
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