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New Critic

  • a word derived from new criticism.
    new criticism
    noun
    an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
new critic
  • a word derived from new criticism.
    new criticism
    noun
    an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.

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Let me be clear about where the New Critic in me stops: I'm on record against the demand to always separate the art from the artist.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

But overlooking the popular MTV program is a mistake, writes Jason Zinoman, The Times’s new critic at large.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

But a new critic in colorful wigs and platform heels has proven harder to ignore.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2021

Wesley Morris, The Times’s new critic at large is one.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2015

"What else is it when you try to use your influence to have me fire our nice, new critic?"

From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Fortunately the new critic did not undertake to walk in the footsteps of Sainte-Beuve.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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