new criticism

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1. new criticism - Noun

2. New criticism - Proper noun

Meaning

literary criticism based on close analysis of the text

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Always a contradictory figure, Burroughs nevertheless criticized Anatole Broyard for reading authorial intent into his works where there is none, which sets him at odds both with New Criticism and the old school as represented by Mathew Arnold. Source: Internet

In the late 1950s, the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye attempted to establish an approach for reconciling historical criticism and New Criticism while addressing concerns of early reader-response and numerous psychological and social approaches. Source: Internet

Modern life is characterized by the reemergence of grammar as its most salient feature—a trend McLuhan felt was exemplified by the New Criticism of Richards and Leavis. Source: Internet

Sorrentino, Life of Fire, p 11 At midcentury he was a “predisciple of the New Criticism”; by its end he was “a proto-deconstructionist anti-artist hero” who had “leapfrogged modernism, landing on postmodernist ground.” Source: Internet

The New Criticism However important all of these aesthetic movements were as antecedents, current ideas about literary criticism derive almost entirely from the new direction taken in the early twentieth century. Source: Internet

The rise of New Criticism during the 1950s, in which author is separated from text, secured Pound's poetic reputation. Source: Internet

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