| Item Description: | Partial contents: Pt. I. The New Criticism and its critics. 1. Contemporary responses tothe New Criticism. 2. The historical context of the New Criticism. 3.Before the New Criticism -- Pt. II. The formation of the New Criticism.4. John Crowe Ransom: the social relations of aesthetic activity. 5.Allen Tate: the social organization of literature. 6. Robert PennWarren: against propaganda and irresponsibility -- Conclusion: theanalysis of a Southern poet -- Pt. III. The establishment of the NewCriticism. 7. The origins of academic involvement. 8. Understandingliterature: textbooks and the distribution of the New Criticism. 9. Theform of criticism -- Pt. IV. The development of the New Criticism. 10.John Crowe Ransom: the isolation of aesthetic activity. 11. Allen Tate:the man of letters and the cold war. 12. Robert Penn Warren: literatureand social engagement -- Conclusion: Modernism and postmodernism withinthe American academy. 13. The professionalization of literary study.14. The New Crit
ical intervention. |
|---|
