New Criticism
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title:
New Criticism
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New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object. The movement derived its name from John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book The New Criticism. The works of Cambridge scholar I. A. Richards, especially his Practical Criticism, The Principles of Literary Criti
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Formalist movement in literary theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism
date created:
2004-01-21T19:26:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T18:00:00Z
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