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    New Criticism was a formalist literary theory movement that dominated American criticism in the mid-20th century. It emphasized close reading of texts as self-contained objects, excluding external contexts. New Critics believed structure and meaning were interconnected and analyzed texts through formal elements to identify themes, paradoxes, and tensions.

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    New Criticism was a formalist literary theory movement that dominated American criticism in the mid-20th century. It emphasized close reading of texts as self-contained objects, excluding external contexts. New Critics believed structure and meaning were interconnected and analyzed texts through formal elements to identify themes, paradoxes, and tensions.

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    NEW

    CRITICIS
    M
    New Criticism was a formalist
    movement in literary theory that
    dominated American literary
    criticism in the middle decades
    of the 20th century.

    2
    It emphasized close reading,
    particularly poetry, to discover
    how a work of literature
    functioned as a self-contained,
    self-referential aesthetic
    object.

    3
    The movement
    derived its name
    from John Crowe
    Ransom’s 1941
    book The New
    Criticism

    4
    ༝ New Critics believed the structure and
    meaning of the text were intimately
    connected and should not be analyzed
    separately.
    ༝ In order to bring the focus of literary
    studies back to analysis of the texts,
    they aimed to exclude the reader’s
    response, the author’s intention,
    historical and cultural contexts, and
    moralistic bias from their analysis.

    5
    ༝ Studying a passage of prose or
    poetry in New Critical style required
    careful, exacting scrutiny of the
    passage itself.
    ༝ Formal elements such as rhyme,
    meter, setting, characterization, and
    plot were used to identify the theme
    of the text.

    6
    ༝ In addition to the theme, the
    New Critics also looked for
    paradox, ambiguity, irony,
    and tension to help establish
    the single best and most
    unified interpretation of the
    text.
    7
    ༝ Although the New Criticism is no
    longer a dominant theoretical model in
    American universities, some of its
    methods (like close reading) are still
    fundamental tools of literary criticism,
    underpinning a number of subsequent
    theoretic approaches to literature
    including poststructuralism,
    deconstruction theory, and reader-
    response theory.

    8
    The Well
    Wrought
    Urn by
    Cleanth
    Brooks
    (1947)
    9
    British Poetry
    Since 1960 by
    Michael
    Schmidt and
    Grevel Lindop
    (1972)

    10
    Eight
    Contemporary
    Poets: A Critical
    Introduction by
    P.R. King (1979)

    11

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