Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism

Book Overview

Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached from biographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was the dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to the approach advocated by the New Critics. Nonetheless, the theory remains one of the most important sources for groundbreaking criticism and continues to be a controversial approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804011095
• ISBN13: 9780804011099
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.3"