"New Criticism" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=New Criticism}} New Criticism
  1. A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object. Wikipedia link: New Criticism Categories (topical): Literature
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