Background and explanation of New Criticism

 In this video I will explain New Criticism,   background of new criticism and   explanation of new criticism.

Background & Information
of New Criticism:

The Term was coined by W.k.Wimsat and        Monroe Beardsley as a principle of new          criticism.

It emphasized close reading, particularly       of poetry, to discover how a work of                 literature functioned as a self-contained,         self-referential aesthetic object.

The movement derived its name from              John Crowned Ransom's 1941 book.

The focus of this movement is analyzing          the form and content of text.

Some critics inspire from the movement         of formalism, they further expand this             movement into a new movement.

New criticism was a formalist movement       in literary theory that dominated                       American literary criticism in the middle       decades of 20th century.  

Close Reading of Text 

• Basically, new criticism is a literary movement in which we do a close reading of a text.

Close reading involves  to the careful                attention details of a text: its diction,                syntax, patterns of  imagery and                        metaphor, etc.

In new-criticism, close reading ist he               careful, attentive and sustained                         interpretation of a text.

When we are applying new criticism               theory, we read content and form of a             text  without knowing about its author             and historical context. 

We have to analyze a text without                     emotional or sentimental interference,           just on the basis of facts.

Form is important, the writer has no.               importance.