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noun

(often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.

Compare explication de texte.

Origin:
1940–45

Related forms

new critic, New Critic, noun

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new criticism

—n
	an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text

new critic

—n

new critical

—*adj*

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