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 Called The'new Criticism.' By The 1940s, New Critical Methods Had Become The Dominant Pedagogy In Departments Of English At Colleges And Universities Across America, Enjoying Disciplinary Hegemony Until The Late 1960s, When An Influx Of New Theoretical Work In Literary Studies Left The New Criticism In Shadow. Inspired By A Range Of New Commentary Reconsidering The New Criticism (from Critics Including Jane Gallop, Terry Eagleton, Charles Altieri, And Camille Paglia), The Essays In Rereading The New Criticism Reevaluate The New Critical Corpus, Trace Its Legacy, And Explore Resources It Might Offer For The Future Of Theory, Criticism, And Pedagogy. Addressing The Work Of New Critics Such As Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, And Robert Penn Warren, As Well As Important Forerunners Of The New Critics Such As I. A. Richards And William Empson, These Ten Essays Shed New Light On The Genesis Of The New Criticism And Its Significant Contributions To The Development Of Academic Literary Studies In North America; Revisit Its Chief Arguments And Methods; Interrogate Received Ideas About The Movement; And Consider How Its Theories And Techniques Might Inform New Methodologies For Literary And Cultural Studies In The Twenty-first Century.--publisher's Description. 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 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 -- Toward A New Close Reading / John Mcintyre And Miranda Hickman. Edited By Miranda B. Hickman And John D. Mcintyre. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Hickman, Miranda B., McIntyre, John D.

McIntyre, John D.;Hickman, Miranda B

John D. McIntyre; Miranda B. Hickman

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

John D McIntyre, 1966-

Ohio State University Press; Ohio State Univ Pr (Trd)

United States, United States of America

Columbus, Ohio, 2012

PT, 2012

producers:
Muse-DL/1.1.0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Rereading the New Criticism 10
Preface 32
1. Aesthetics as Ethics: One and a Half Theses on the New Criticism 36
2. Eliot, the Agrarians, and the Political Subtext of New Critical Formalism 54
3. Androgyny and Social Upheaval: The Gendered Pretext for John Crowe Ransom¬タルs New Critical Approach 72
4. The Fugitive and the Exile: Theodor W. Adorno, John Crowe Ransom, and The Kenyon Review 90
Preface 110
5. No Two Ways About It: William Empson¬タルs Enabling Modernist Ambiguities 114
6. In Pursuit of Understanding: Louis Untermeyer, Brooks and Warren, and ¬タワThe Red Wheelbarrow¬タン 139
7. Through Fields of Cacophonous Modern Masters: James Baldwin and New Critical Modernism 156
Preface 174
8. ¬タワDisagreeable Intellectual Distance¬タン: Theory and Politics in the Old Regionalism of the New Critics 176
9. Teaching with Style: Brooks and Warren¬タルs Literary Pedagogy 198
10. ¬タワA Kind of Dual Attentiveness¬タン: Close Reading after the New Criticism 221
Epilogue: Toward a New Close Reading 234
Suggested Readings 242
Contributors 244
Index 247
Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9780814270462,Related ISBN:9780814211809,Language:English,OCLC:868220061
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 called the “New Criticism.” By the 1940s, New Critical methods had become the dominant pedagogy in departments of English at colleges and universities across America, enjoying disciplinary hegemony until the late 1960s, when an influx of new theoretical work in literary studies left the New Criticism in shadow. Inspired by a range of new commentary reconsidering the New Criticism (from critics including Jane Gallop, Terry Eagleton, Charles Altieri, and Camille Paglia), the essays in Rereading the New Criticism reevaluate the New Critical corpus, trace its legacy, and explore resources it might offer for the future of theory, criticism, and pedagogy. Addressing the work of New Critics such as Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, as well as important forerunners of the New Critics such as I. A. Richards and William Empson, these ten essays shed new light on the genesis of the New Criticism and its significant contributions to the development of academic literary studies in North America; revisit its chief arguments and methods; interrogate received ideas about the movement; and consider how its theories and techniques might inform new methodologies for literary and cultural studies in the twenty-first century.

2022-03-08