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New Criticismor formalismPost–World War I school of Anglo-American literary theory that insisted on the intrinsic value of a work of art and focused attention on the individual work alone as an independent unit of meaning. New Critics were opposed to the practice of bringing historical or biographical data to bear on the interpretation of a work. The primary critical technique was analytic (or “close”) reading of the text, concentrating on its language, imagery, and emotional or intellectual tensions. Critics associated with the movement include I. A. Richards, William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, and R. P. Blackmur (1904–1965). 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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Discussing his academic training and its influences on his writing, Baker recounts how his graduate literature professors, espousing the ideals of New Criticism, taught him that to have an emotional response to a poem was to embrace the "affective fallacy" of poetics. 6 Tragic Realism LD & the New Criticism Crunchy pop-punk + Sondheimian wordplay = angsty breakup songs for grad students and other book owners. Quickly launching its own annual conference and journal, the ALSC sought to establish at the outset a difficult balancing act: providing a space for an older generation trained in New Criticism whose interests ranged from an analysis of "Goethe's love of the Greeks" to a "close reading of the full Spanish tide of Don Quixote," while also appealing to graduate students who might be interested in practicing a kind of "theoretically informed formalism" (Kachka 1999). |
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