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Rereading the New Criticism /

"Committed to rigorous 'close reading' and engagement with the 'text itself' rather than information 'extrinsic' to the text, John Crowe Ransom and a group of colleagues in the American South of the 1930s established a vanguard approach to literary criticism they c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hickman, Miranda B., 1969- (Editor ), McIntyre, John D., 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rereading the New Criticism / Miranda Hickman
  • Aesthetics as ethics : one and a half theses on the New Criticism / Robert Archambeau
  • Eliot, the Agrarians, and the political subtext of New Critical formalism / Alastair Morrison
  • Androgyny and social upheaval : the gendered pretext of John Crowe Ransom's New Critical approach / Aaron Shaheen
  • The fugitive and the exile : Theodor W. Adorno, John Crowe Ransom, and The Kenyon review / James Matthew Wilson
  • No two ways about it : William Empson's enabling modernist ambiguities / Bradley D. Clissold
  • In pursuit of understanding : Louis Untermeyer, Brooks and Warren, and "The red wheelbarrow" / Connor Byrne
  • Through fields of cacophonous modern masters : James Baldwin and New Critical modernism / Adam Hammond
  • "Disagreeable intellectual distance" : theory and politics in the old regionalism of the New Critics / Alexander MacLeod
  • Teaching with style : Brooks and Warren's literary pedagogy / Tara Lockhart
  • "A kind of dual attentiveness" : close reading after the New Criticism / Cecily Devereux
  • Epilogue : toward a new close reading / John McIntyre and Miranda Hickman.