How To Use new criticism In A Sentence
- From their base in university English departments and university-sponsored quarterlies, the poets and editors associated with the New Criticism proved to be a very powerful opposition to the populist trend.
- Paul de Man, who introduced the deconstructionist theory of Jacques Derrida to American readers after the New Criticism had become a received orthodoxy, detected in the New Critics a "foreknowledge" of what he called, borrowing a phrase from the Swiss critic Georges Poulet, "hermeneutic circularity. The Decline and Fall of Literature
- The hermeneutics used in the historicists' calculus of exploitation and oppression are less hermetic than those of new criticism and theory, but they are just as schematic.
- T.S. Eliot, who was in many ways associated with the New Criticism, one of its intellectual forebears, nevertheless took a somewhat dim view of it and called it "lemon squeezer criticism.
- Feminist literature, which forsakes the critical method of new criticism, attaches the importance to the studies of social and historical factors.
- This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt.
- New Criticism excluded factors such as an author's biographical details, historical circumstances and other so-called extratextual materials to arrive at an interpretation. Jeep Barrels Past the Drama
- I was baffled by the New Criticism as it was applied in my lit courses (I learned the word "Alexandrine" in order to describe its enigmatic protocols), sunk as a prospective English major by a disastrous attempt at a close reading of Spenser. Site One: A Romantic Education.
- Finally, however, what probably annoys me the most about the above quoted passage, as well as other similarly know-nothing comments about the New Criticism, is the degree to which New Critical formalism continues to be regarded by some (whether, in this case, by the two critics at issue or by Christine Thomas -- I have to rely on her characterization since I haven't read the books) as an over-intellectualized, reader-unfriendly method of interpretation. Principles of Literary Criticism
- Tension" is a criticism category proposed by Allen Tate and the most important criticism term in aesthetics of new criticism.
