MODERNISM, MYTH AND NEW CRITICISM READING LIST
MODERNISM
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955):
MYTH CRITICISM
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957)
"The Archetypes of Literature" (1951)
NEW CRITICISM
John Crowe Ransom (1888 - 1974):
"Criticism as Pure Speculation" (1941)
"Criticism, Inc." (1938)
"Poetry: a Note in Ontology" (1934)
"Literature as Knowledge" (1941)
"Tension in Poetry" (1938)
"The Concept of Realism in Literary Scholarship" (1960)
"Literary Theory, Criticism, and History" (1960)
"Concepts of Form and Structure in Twentieth Century Criticism" (1958)
"The Concept of Evolution in Literary History" (1956)
"Literary History" (1952)
"The Concept of 'Romanticism' in Literary History" (1949)
"The Revolt Against Positivism in Recent European Literary Scholarship" (1946)
"Six Types of Literary History" (1946)
Theory of Literature [by Wellek and Austin Warren] (1942):
"The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art." 142-157.
"Theory of Literary History." 252-269.
"Periods and Movements in Literary History" (1941)
"Literary Criticism and Philosophy" (1937)
Cleanth Brooks (1906 - 1994 ):
"The Formalist Critic" (1951)
"Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949)
The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947):
"The Heresy of Paraphrase."
"The Language of Paradox."
Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939)
"Explication as Criticism" (1952)
"The Affective Fallacy" [by Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley] (1949)
"History and Criticism: a Problematic Relationship" (1947)
"The Intentional Fallacy" [by Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley] (1946)