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Brooks, Cleanth (1906– ) literary critic; born in Murray, Ky. A long-time Yale professor (1946–75), he was the leading New Critic of the 1940s–1950s, recognized for his critical acuity in close readings of modern literature in The Well Wrought Urn (1947) and other essays. He published important works on Milton, Thomas Percy and William Faulkner. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In addition to these there is the fine collection of related stories (The Unvanquished, 1938), which Cleanth Brooks rightly called, in an interview with Parini, the best place to begin reading Faulkner. Those of us who became students of literature before the hegemony of poststructuralism and the "new historicism" may remember being taught to read poetically by such "new critics" as Cleanth Brooks and Lawrence Perrine; and while we soon learned to sacrifice personal taste to the "business" of scholarship (and even, indeed, to give over all notions of "taste" and of esthetic categories generally), such a collection reminds us to renew our pleasure in reading. Mark Royden Winchell, a professor at Clemson University whose many previous biographies include a 1996 one of the Southern literary critic Cleanth Brooks, tries hard to remedy the neglect of Davidson with this handsome, ambitious work. |
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