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New Criticismn. A method of literary evaluation and interpretation practiced chiefly in the mid-1900s that emphasizes close examination of a text with minimum regard for the biographical or historical circumstances in which it was produced.
New Critic n.new criticism n (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text new critic n new critical adjnew′ crit′icism
n. (often caps.) a method of literary criticism that concentrates on textual explication and considers historical and biographical study as secondary. [1941, Amer.] new′ crit′ic, n. New Criticisma critical approach to literature that concentrates upon analysis and explication of individual texts and considers historical and biographical information less important than an awareness of the work’s formal structure. — New Critic, n.See also: CriticismThesaurus| Noun | 1. | new criticism - literary criticism based on close analysis of the textliterary criticism, criticism - a written evaluation of a work of literature |
References in periodicals archiveArtists are the new critics of the time phrases to that effect were thrown around on opening night.Figuration makes a morbid comeback in CCP 13 Artists AwardsAmong those 'new critics and researchers', mostly students doing MPhil or PhD in Urdu, there is a trend to include the popular fiction writers like Umaira Ahmed in their otherwise quite serious and well-researched dissertations, and that too on serious and philosophical issues like ontology.Literary notes: Popular fiction, metaphysics and Urdu novelPhelan's contention is not only extraordinary, but also thought-provoking--a provocation all the more inviting in that it violates standards of critical propriety operating at least since the time of the New Critics; that is, the processes of an author's writing are off limits to the inquiring mind of a critic.Can Writers Read ReadersIn college, many of my own professors had been New Critics, an approach that has largely died off thank goodness.Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' comes fully alive in this new editionIndeed, prior to the mid-1940s the phrase "close reading" is most commonly found in discussions of primary, secondary, and early college education, and not of graduate studies, the New Critics, or professional academia in general.Problems of scale in "Close" and "Distant" readingNow, I should note that the usual dismissals of the New Critics on account of their "religious" obsession with metaphor and paradox, their obscurantist hunting after the "heresy of paraphrase," or because their apparent formalism closed off literature to the deeper exigencies that explain why we read it and why some of us write it, are mistaken.The Persistence of PoetryArnold's reputation has been tarnished somewhat, as the generations after the New Humanists and New Critics have found his Olympian pronouncements (celebrated by Orel, by the way) a bit too conservative and dogmatic for postmodern sensibilities.Introduction: critiquing the Victorian criticsFuchs explores the work of writers of modernism, as well as more contemporary writers, employing literary criticism frameworks such as New Critics and deconstructionism.Writers & Thinkers: Selected Literary CriticismIn fact, their approach engendered new critics; scholars who dissented from the scientistic and social engineering approach attacked their colleagues as servants of the status quo who sold their intellectual independence for research funds.Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War AmericaThe www.asiw.co.uk platform will enable young and new critics to share their views with one another, Wales' professional reviewers and audiences and artists.'Critical debate is an important part of the industry' A ground-breaking initiative to nurture a new generation of arts critics ACROSSWALES is ready to get off the ground. Here we reveal more about THEWALES Critics Fund
So while it is suddenly chic to pile on and criticize the president's shortcomings as a leader and commander in chief, I think the new critics should back off.Obama's critics lead from behindIn order, those chapters cover Hawthorne's antebellum reputation as "morbid genius"; his late nineteenth-century canonization as nationally representative author and gentleman; his many lives, psychological and social, as told by twentieth-century biographers; his complex evaluation (as novelist and/or romancer) by New Critics; his centrality in late-twentieth-century debates about the American romance tradition; and his reassessment over the last few decades from ideological and contextual (i.e., feminist, masculinist, racial, and new historicist) perspectives.Coale, Samuel Chase. The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous ApproachesEncyclopediaSeeNew CriticismThesaurusSeenew criticism |