new criticism
(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.
Origin of new criticism
1Other words from new criticism
- new critic, New Critic, noun
- Compare explication de texte.
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How to use new criticism in a sentence
And here it was that our new critic came most sharply into conflict with our cherished beliefs.
Matthew Arnold | G. W. E. RussellFortunately the new critic did not undertake to walk in the footsteps of Sainte-Beuve.
But strange to say, as soon as a new critic was engaged, the advertising was forthwith resumed.
Commercialism and Journalism | Hamilton Holt
British Dictionary definitions for new criticism
an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text
Derived forms of new criticism
- new critic, noun
- new critical, adjective
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