New Criticn.
/ˌnjuː ˈkrɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈkrɪdɪk/ Literary Criticism.
An advocate or exponent of New Criticism.
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form-historian1928
form-critic1933
contextualist1936
New Critic1941
style critic1959
Barthesian1966
new historicist1971
narratologist1974
post-structuralist1974
deconstructor1978
Derridean1978
deconstructionist1982
1941 J. C. Ransom New Crit. p. vii He [sc. R. P. Blackmur] is nevertheless a ‘new’ critic in the sense of this book.
1948 Poetry Dec. 159 Concrete universal, a concept, continuous in literary criticism, which implies the paradoxical union in a poem of the concrete, specific, and individual, together with the universal and general. The concrete universal persists among the New Critics.
1973 Observer 8 Apr. 37/5 The so-called New Critics in America made a great deal of their capacity to submit poems or prose-passages to detailed, word-by-word analysis.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 73/4 The anti-intentionalist position is sometimes considered a modern fashion, a new-fangled way of looking at literature wickedly invented by the New Critics in the 1940s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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