Question

what is new criticism​

Answer 1

• New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century

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Answer 2

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New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.