Dominant mid twentieth century.
Close reading
Rejects all elements outside of text
Key concept: Intentional Fallacy
History: Strucuralism and deconstruction replaced new criticism
Cliches: come hell or High Water
History: Intentional Fallacy Essay- 1954
Works: Birth of new criticism 1922-1925 The Fugative Essay.
Works: Foundational work- Tradition and the Individual Talent
Critics: Allen Tate's work...rejection of abstractionism...
Cliches: Costs a pretty penny
Key Concepts- Exclusion of Advertisement and Propaganda
Cliches: Joe Six Pack
Key Concepts:Studying a passage of prose or poetry in NC style requires Careful Scrutiny from the reader.
Works: "The Well-Wrought Urn" written by Cleanth Brooks
Key Concepts: Rhyme, meter, setting and plot are used to help identify theme.
History: New criticism 1920's -1960's
Critics: "Lemin squeezer school of criticism" The Wasteland T.S. Elliot
History: Godfather of New Criticism- William Blake
Final Jeopardy: (Everything is on handout)
Answer: "The Intentional Fallacy" William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
Potent Potables, Cliche, People, Key Concepts, The Works, History
(Keanu Reaves, Burt Renolds, Sarah Palin, Sean Oconnery)
"Well Wrought Urn"
Unity in poetry. How do all these things add up to a "Well Wrought Urn"
Group two: Deconstruction
The People have accused William Blake of obscenity in this poem.
The Sick Rose
Oh Rose Thou Art Sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed
of crimson joy
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy
- Authors intent does not apply to deconstruction.
- Freud/psychoanalyst: sex everywhere. (rose female-reproductive organ, worm-penis) (rape)
- Derrida: Only text as source of reading (close reading) No fixed meaning. Always rethink your interpretations. Question your beliefs. To read is to experience...
Diversity among people: divesity among interpretations.
- Hans George Gatamer. Deconstruction: Continual exploration. One can make a word anything he wants it to mean.
Words are ambiguous.
Deconstruction: school of wide range thinking. No authorial intent. Many meanings/levels. Metaphorical.
Follows New Criticism, but deconstruction believes that there is no outside the text, because all things are text. (Pandora's Box) Meaning is subjective.
Lines up with existentialism. We are always in the process
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