Given below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion and the other one is labelled as reason.
Assertion: New Historicism seeks to explore the interconnections between literature and historical context, rejecting the idea of an isolated literary text.
Reason: Practitioners of New Historicism argue that literary works are shaped by and shape the cultural and historical circumstances in which they are produced
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Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
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Both Assertion and Reason are true, but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
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Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
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Assertion is false, but Reason is true.
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