new critic

new criticism

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.


Origin:
1940–45

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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new criticism
 
n
an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text
 
new critic
 
n
 
new critical
 
adj

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