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new criticism
noun
- (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
new criticism
noun
- an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text
Derived Forms
- new critical, adjective
- new critic, noun
Other Words From
- new critic New Critic noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of new criticism1
Example Sentences
The DeSantis administration is also facing new criticism for how it is tabulating the pandemic death toll.
In the first sunny hours since the bill got through Congress, they've mostly been congratulating themselves, taking special pleasure yesterday when McConnell made a new criticism of the bill.
His supremacy and that of his satellites Moore and Campbell were championed by the old papers and by the two new Criticism.
The problem consists in this: that our doctrine necessitates a new criticism of the sources of history.
We therefore hope the orthodox parsons will refute the "New Criticism."
The general view of the Bible herein set forth rests upon the conclusions of no new criticism.
A new criticism arose, and bade literature draw from life, while a vivid idealism accompanied anxiety for historical truth.
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