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The 51 pages that link to New Criticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary criticismBroader topic: Its close analysis exemplifies criticism centered on textual form rather than author or history.

• Feminist literary criticismCompared with: Its separation of texts from social contexts conflicts with feminist attention to power and history.

• HermeneuticsCompared with: Its focus on textual structure contrasts with approaches emphasizing historical context and the interpreter’s situation.

• IntertextualityCompared with: New Criticism’s focus on textual unity differs from tracing a work’s relations to other texts.

• T. S. EliotRelated: Eliot’s emphasis on poetic form and textual analysis influenced its critical climate.

• Historical criticismCompared with: Its emphasis on the self-contained text challenged context-centered interpretation.

• Literary modernismCompared with: Its close reading often treated modernist poems as especially intricate autonomous objects.

• Reader-response criticismCompared with: Its emphasis on textual unity contrasts with reader-response accounts of meaning.

• The Waste LandRelated: The poem’s intricate patterning and ambiguities made it a frequent subject of close reading.

• Canon formationRelated: Its focus on textual unity offered one influential way to defend judgments of literary value.

• Close readingRelated: Its practice of close textual analysis helped establish the method’s modern literary prominence.

• Confessional poetryCompared with: Its focus on the poem as an autonomous object resists biographical readings central to confessional poetry.

• Marxist literary criticismCompared with: Its text-centered method contrasts with Marxist attention to social history and material conditions.

• Reception theoryCompared with: Its emphasis on the self-contained text contrasts with reception theory’s focus on audience activity.

• Russian FormalismRelated: Its focus on the text resembles formalism, though it developed in a different intellectual setting.

• Arabic literary criticismCompared with: Its text-centered method contrasts with historical and socially oriented approaches used in Arabic criticism.

• DeconstructionCompared with: Deconstruction also scrutinizes textual detail but disputes the possibility of a unified, self-contained work.

• Stéphane MallarméCompared with: Their focus on the self-contained poem differs from readings that foreground Mallarmé’s historical and philosophical contexts.

• Death of the AuthorRelated: Its focus on the text overlaps with Barthes’s argument, though its critical aims differ.

• John DonneRelated: New Critical readings made Donne’s verbal complexity a model for analyzing poetry.

• Raymond WilliamsCompared with: Williams placed literary form within social history rather than treating the text as self-contained.

• Intentional fallacyNarrower topic: Its focus on the text supplied the critical setting for the fallacy.

• Reception historyCompared with: Its focus on the text itself contrasts with reception history’s changing audiences.

• American literary canonRelated: Its classroom methods helped make selected texts durable objects of study.

• Literary biographyCompared with: Its resistance to author-centered interpretation challenges biography’s use of life as an explanatory key.

• New York IntellectualsCompared with: Its formal emphasis differed from the circle’s frequent attention to history and politics.

• Robert LowellNarrower topic: Its attention to poetic structure informed Lowell’s early craft.

• Northrop FryeCompared with: Frye sought a general theory of literature, while New Critics typically centered interpretation on individual works.

• Cultural criticismCompared with: Its focus on textual unity differs from cultural criticism’s attention to historical power.

• Anne SextonCompared with: Sexton’s reputation invites biographical readings that New Criticism deliberately brackets.

• Edmund WilsonCompared with: Wilson’s historical and biographical criticism differed from New Criticism’s focus on the text itself.

• H.D.Compared with: Its preference for the autonomous poem contrasted with later attention to H.D.’s biography and gender.

• James WoodCompared with: Wood shares close attention to language but gives more weight to history, ethics, and character.

• Robert Penn WarrenRelated: Warren helped bring this method to prominence through criticism and teaching.

• Southern AgrariansRelated: Several Agrarians helped develop a critical method that became influential beyond their political program.

• Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveCompared with: Its insistence on textual autonomy directly challenges the biographical emphasis associated with Sainte-Beuve.

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.Compared with: Gates’s criticism places literary form within the histories and cultural traditions that New Criticism tends to bracket.

• Umberto EcoCompared with: Eco shares attention to textual structure but gives greater weight to interpretive cooperation.

• T. E. HulmeRelated: Its attention to concentrated verbal form resonates with aspects of Hulme’s poetic program.

• Vernon Louis ParringtonCompared with: Its rise displaced the historical and political emphasis central to Parrington’s criticism.

• Lionel TrillingCompared with: Trilling’s criticism connected textual interpretation more explicitly to history and moral life.

• Terry EagletonCompared with: Eagleton challenges accounts that isolate literary form from its social and historical conditions.

• Interpretation (hermeneutics)Compared with: Its focus on the self-contained text contrasts with interpretations grounded in historical context.

• Wallace StevensCompared with: Its critical methods shaped how Stevens’s formally intricate poems were interpreted.

• Francis PongeRelated: Ponge’s verbal density rewards the close reading associated with this critical practice.

• Friedrich GundolfCompared with: Its focus on the text contrasts with Gundolf’s emphasis on authorial personality and cultural influence.

• George SaintsburyCompared with: Its concentration on the individual text differs from Saintsbury’s emphasis on literary history.

• Helen VendlerRelated: Vendler shares its focus on textual detail while developing her own interpretive emphasis.

• Literary scienceRelated: It made close reading a central academic method for studying literature.

• Literature (academic discipline)Related: It made close reading a central method in English-language university study.