KnowraNew CriticismLinked fromLinked fromThe 51 pages that link to New Criticism, each with the reason it gives.All 51Broader topic 1Related 15Narrower topic 2Compared with 33Feminist 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.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.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.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.Raymond WilliamsCompared with: Williams placed literary form within social history rather than treating the text as self-contained.Reception historyCompared with: Its focus on the text itself contrasts with reception history’s changing audiences.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.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.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.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.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.Paul BénichouCompared with: Bénichou’s historical explanations extend beyond the text’s internal structure.
KnowraNew CriticismLinked fromLinked fromThe 51 pages that link to New Criticism, each with the reason it gives.All 51Broader topic 1Related 15Narrower topic 2Compared with 33Feminist 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.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.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.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.Raymond WilliamsCompared with: Williams placed literary form within social history rather than treating the text as self-contained.Reception historyCompared with: Its focus on the text itself contrasts with reception history’s changing audiences.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.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.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.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.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.Paul BénichouCompared with: Bénichou’s historical explanations extend beyond the text’s internal structure.