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. Praising It New is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty years. It is the perfect introduction for students to the best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.
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. Praising It New is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty years. It is the perfect introduction for students to the best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.