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noun
(often initial capital letters) 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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Origin of new criticism
First recorded in 1940–45
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new criticism
noun
an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text
Derived forms of new criticism
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