Table of contents; permissions; introduction; section i; some paradoxes of new criticism; elucidating the pleasures of the text; in defense of close reading; section ii; ad textum, ad hominem; the new criticism and southernness; french new criticismand anglo-american new criticisms; anew reading of clement greenberg'smodernism c. 1950-1960; contributors; index.
Summary
This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the history of the New Criticism as a movement, consider theoretical and practical aspects of various proponents, and assess the record of subsequent engagement with its tenets. The volume will prove valuable for its renewed concentration not only on the New Critics themselves, but also on the way they and their work have been contextualized, criticized, and ...
