Question

what is the focus of new criticism?

Answer 1

New Criticism was a formalist movement inliterary theory that dominated Americanliterary 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. The movement derived its name from John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book The New Criticism.

The work of Cambridge scholar I. A. Richards, especially his Practical Criticism and The Meaning of Meaning, which offered what was claimed to be an empirical scientific approach, were important to the development of New Critical methodology.[1] Also very influential were the critical essays of T. S. Eliot, such as "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and "Hamlet and His Problems", in which Eliot developed his notion of the "objective correlative". Eliot's evaluative judgments, such as his condemnation of Milton and Shelley, his liking for the so-calledmetaphysical poets and his insistence that poetry must be impersonal, greatly influenced the formation of the New Critical canon.

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Answer 2

New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism.

It emphasised close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.