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New Criticism, new criticism
[new a. 5.]
An approach to the analysis of literary texts, associated spec. with American critics who subscribed to the procedures outlined by John Crowe Ransom (see quots. 1941), which concentrates on the linguistic organization of a text with particular emphasis on irony, ambiguity, paradox, etc. So New Critic; New Critical a.
1941J. C. Ransom (title) The new criticism. Ibid. p. vii, He [sc. R. P. Blackmur] is nevertheless a ‘new’ critic in the sense of this book. Ibid. i. 3 Discussion of the new criticism must start with Mr. Richards. 1948Poetry LXXIII. 153 The Father of the New Criticism is probably I. A. Richards. 1948[see concrete a. and n. A. 4 b]. 1951R. P. Blackmur in Hudson Rev. III. iv. 501 The one thing the ‘new critics’ shared was skill in analysis. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) x. 212 The true attitude of Eliot, he suspected, was manifest in his disciples, who in all their voluminous New Criticism had given Joyce scarcely a word of exegesis. 1955J. Wain Interpretations 215 Poetic difficulty..is not identical with grammatical difficulty..nor is the ‘New Critic’..simply the old note⁓maker writ large. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Att. i. iii. 59 Hardy was back from New York with some frightfully funny stories about the New Criticism boys. 1960–1M. Spilka in Modern Fiction Studies VI. iv. 285 The concept of the author is conspicuous, in New Critical thought, by its absence. 1963P. West Mod. Novel iii. ii. 291 Robert Penn Warren..one of the old New Critics. 1969Encycl. Brit. VI. 781/2 In 1941 John Crowe Ransom coined the term ‘new criticism’ for what is in certain essential respects a return to the Renaissance rhetorician's principle that a poem is an arrangement of words, to be apprehended in their interaction. 1973Observer 8 Apr. 37/5 The so-called New Critics in America made a great deal of their capacity to submit poems or prose-passages to detailed, word-by-word analysis. 1973College English XXXIV. 573 The pattern is the same as he moves from one caricature of a ‘New Critical’ assumption to the next. |