Note: Pericles at Presidio
| Weeks 2-3 (9/3-9/12) The New Criticism
Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase"
Historical - New Historicism
psychoanalytical - Lacanian
Marxist - post-colonialism
feminnist
(romantic) - deconstruction
these approaches attempt to go beyond the impasse of formalism (New Criticism)
as a critical approach, formalism has exhausted its possibilities
do these approaches actually go beyond the impasse?
Cultural criticism essay (Edward Said) -- deconstruction is new new criticism
deconstructionists think that new historicism is new criticism in disguise
New Criticism:
John Crowe Ransom's 1943 book
commented T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, Yvor Winters and William Empson
a manifesto? no, just new works criticised
Allen Tate
Robert Penn Warren
Rene Wellek
Cleanth Brooks
741 Theory of literature - read Rene Wellek
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