Concept
It was the leading form of textual analysis in America from the late 1930s until the early 1960s.
New Criticism
The method of examining elements outside the text to uncover the text's meaning is called.....
Extrinsic Criticism
The error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader is defined by New Critics as ..........
The Affective Fallacy
It is a figure of speech, a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth.
Paradox
A New Critic will show how the apparent contradictions in a poem all coalesce to support.........
the poem's chief paradox and the text's organic unity.
The New Critics belong to a broad classification of literary criticism called.......
Formalism
"Only the poem itself can be objectively evaluated not the feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs of either the author or the reader." is a belief held by..........
New Critics
For New Critics,the meaning of the poem resides within its own .........
structure
A figure of speech that implies a distance between what is said and what is meant
Irony
According to Russsian Formalists, is the raw material of a story.
Fabula.
"The poem is not a mere reflection of the poet's personal feelings." reflects ....belief.
T.S. Eliot´s
For the New Critics, a poem has ..............; that is, it possesses its own being and exists like any other object. In effect, a poem becomes an artifact, an objective, self-contained, autonomous entity with its own structure.
ontological status
All parts of a poem are interrelated and interconnected, with each part reflecting and helping to support the poem's central idea/ chief paradox. New Critics defined this as the poem..........
Organic Unity.
The conflicts between a word's denotation and its connotation, between a literal detail and a figurative one, and between an abstract and a concrete detail.
Tension
According to Russian Formalists,the “unique language” used in the actual text which makes a given work a work of literature. In literary works ( via this “unique language”) the common and ordinary is elevated and transformed, that is, the old is drawn in a new way, the familiar is made strange or becomes defamiliarized.
Literariness
...............is synonymous with New Criticism.
Close Reading
New Critics used the term ..............to describe the problem inherent/ error in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.
The Intentional Fallacy
A poem is not simply. a statement that is either true or false, but a bundle of harmonized tensions and resolved stresses.No simple paraphrase can equal the meaning of the poem, for the poem itself resists through its inner tensions any prose statement that attempts to encapsulate its meaning.
This is what the New Critics meant by ...............
Heresy of paraphrase.
A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings.
Ambiguity.
Unlike everyday speech, literary language draws attention to itself, shouting “Look at me; I am special.”
Foregrounding
The unity of New Criticism´s adherents stems from their opposition to.........
The methods of literary analysis prevailing in academia in the first part of the twentieth century.
For the New Critics,during the creative process, the poet's mind, serves as ..............., brings together the experiences of the author's personality (not the author's personality traits or attributes), into an external object and a new creation: the poem.
the catalyst
For the New Critics,a poem is a reconciliation of ..................
conflicts, of opposing meanings and tensions.
For New Critics,the meaning of the poem can be discovered only by ..............
analyzing contextually the poetic elements and diction.
Is the process of making strange the familiar, or putting the old in new light, what Shklovsky calls a “sphere of new perceptions”.
Defamiliarization