Chapter Objectives1.Locates meaning of text within the text itself, considered as an autonomous linguistic "artifact"; interested in principles of internal coherence, rather than authorial intention, historical context, or congruence to external reality; |
2.Became the dominant critical approach in postwar American universities (where it was referred to as the "New Criticism"); leading practitioners in the U.S. included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren; |
3.Technique of "close reading" analyzes relationships between parts in an effort to limn the intrinsic meaning of a text (with particular attention devoted to the linguistic properties of ambiguity, irony, and paradox). |
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