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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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Compare explication de texte.

Origin of new criticism

First recorded in 1940–45

OTHER WORDS FROM new criticism

new critic, New Critic, noun

Words nearby new criticism

New Comedy, Newcomen, newcomer, New Country, new covenant, new criticism, new cuisine, New Deal, New Delhi, New Democratic Party, New Economic Policy

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How to use new criticism in a sentence

The DeSantis administration is also facing new criticism for how it is tabulating the pandemic death toll.
Inside a Florida Hospital Full of Dying, Unvaxxed Thirtysomethings|Francisco Alvarado|September 2, 2021|The Daily Beast
In the first sunny hours since the bill got through Congress, they've mostly been congratulating themselves, taking special pleasure yesterday when McConnell made a new criticism of the bill.
The Trailer: What the stimulus means for the next campaign|David Weigel|March 11, 2021|Washington Post
But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for new criticism

new criticism

noun

an approach to literary criticism through close analysis of the text

Derived forms of new criticism

new critic, nounnew critical, adjective

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