NEW CRITICISM

New Criticism was the dominant trend in Anglo-American literary criticism from the 1920s to the late 1950s and early 1960s. A form of formalism, its adherents emphasised close reading of the texts themselves and the rejection of author-oriented, socio-historical and reader-oriented (or affective) approaches to criticism.

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- Ransom, John Crowe, ed. The Kenyon Critics: Studies in Modern Literature from the Kenyon Review. 1951.
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Anthologies:
- Kaplan, Charles, ed. The Overwrought Urn. New York: Pegasus, 1969.
- Litz, A. Walton, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey, eds. Modernism and the New Criticism. Vol. 7 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
Selected Individual Works:
- Bové, Paul. Intellectuals in Power: a Genealogy of Critical Humanism. 1986.
- Bradbury, John M. The Fugitives: a Critical Account. 1951.
- Cowan, Louise. The Southern Critics: an Introduction to the Criticism of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, and Andrew Lytle. Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1997.
- Cowan, Louise. The Fugitive Group. 1959.
- Daiches, David Critical Approaches to Literature:
  - "The Proper Sphere of Poetry" (143-157)
  - "The Poet and his Medium" (158-168)
- De Man, Paul. "New Criticism and Nouvelle Critique." Preuves 188 (October 1966): 29-37.
  - "Form and Intent in the American New Criticism." Critique (1954): .
    - Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. 2nd Ed. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983. 20-35.
- De Man, Paul. "L'Impasse de la critique formaliste." Critique 109 (1956): 438-500.
  - "The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism." Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. 2nd Ed. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983. 229-245.
- Douglas, Wallace. "Deliberate Exiles: the Social Roots of Agrarian Poetics." Aspects of American Poetry. Ed. R. Ludwig Columbus. 1962.
- Elton, William. A Glossary of the New Criticism. 1949.
- Fekete, John. The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
- Forster, Richard. The New Romantics: a Reappraisal of New Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1962.
- Glicksburg, Charles. American Literary Criticism, 1900 - 1950. New York: Hendricks, 1951.
- Graff, Gerald.
- Harland, Richard. "Anglo-American New Criticism, 1900-1960." Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 166-199.
- Hartman, Geoffrey. "Beyond Formalism." Modern Language Notes 81 (1966): 542-557.
  - Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970. New Haven: Yale UP, 1970. 42-57.
- Hartman, Geoffrey. "Structuralism: the Anglo-American Adventure." Yale French Studies 37 - 37 (1966): 148-168.
  - Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970. New Haven: Yale UP, 1970. 3-23.
- Holman, C. Hugh. "Literature and Culture: the Fugitive Agrarians." Social Forces 37 (1958): .
- Jancovich, Mark. The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
- Krieger, Murray. The New Apologists for Poetry. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1956.
- Leitch, Vincent. "The 'New Criticism.'" American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. 24-59.
- Lentricchia, Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
- Malvasi, Mark G. The Unregenerate South: the Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1997.
- O'Connor, William Van. An Age of Criticism, 1900 - 1950. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.
- Pritchard, J. P. Criticism in America. Norman, Okla: Pilgrim Press, 1956.
- Robey, David. "Anglo-American New Criticism." Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction. Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey. London: Batsford, 1982. 65-83.
- Robey, David. "Modern Linguistics and the Language of Literature." Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction. Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey. London: Batsford, 1982. 38-64.
- Stovall, Floyd, and Harry H. Clark. The Development of American Literary Criticism. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1955.
- Sutton, Walter. Modern American Criticism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963.
- Szili, Joseph. "The New Criticism." Literature and its Interpretations. 1979.
- Thompson, E. M. Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism. The Hague: Mouton, 1971.
- Tyson, Lois. "New Criticism." Critical Theory Today. 117-152.
- Webster, Grant. The Republic of Letters: a History of Postwar American Criticism. 1979.
- Wellek, René. American Criticism, 1900-1950. Vol. 6. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950. 8 Vols. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
- Young, Thomas Daniel. The New Criticism and After. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1976.

On-Line:

Searle, Leroy F.: New Criticism (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory On-line)
Surdulescu, Radu: The New Criticism, or Formalism with a Human Face
Wikipedia Encyclopedia: New Criticism

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