New Criticism
From the 1920s to the 1950s, it was a kind of criticism that had great influence in British and American criticism circles.
Genre, named after American Joe Lanson's prose collection New Criticism.
( 194 1)。 This collection praised the criticisms of thomas eliot and others.
The criticism method based on text analysis, called "new criticism", is based on
Different from the traditional criticism of academic school since19th century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, British writer Hume and American writer Pound put forward "strong".
Adjusting accurate images and the concept of language art is the beginning of new critical theory.
In the 1920s, Eliot and Richards advocated and created symbolism poetry respectively.
The critical method of discourse analysis lays the foundation for the basic theory of new criticism.
Its main representative figures. New criticism has many members and advocates complexity. male
Their similarities are mainly: 1. From the aesthetic point of view of symbolism,
Taking a work as an independent and objective symbol is a kind of self-insulation from the outside world.
Giving self-sufficient organisms is called "organic formalism"; 2. They think
Literature is a special language form in essence, and the task of criticism is to correct it.
Analyze the text of the work and explore the interaction between the parts.
This secret relationship is called "semantic analysis". Symbolism provided them with
Based on aesthetic theory, word meaning analysis is their specific comment method.
Eliot's famous essay Tradition and Personal Talent (19 17) comes from the opposite side.
Put forward the theory of "depersonalization" from the perspective of romanticism. For romance
Marxism thinks that poetry is the expression of the poet's feelings, and he thinks that subjectivity
Feeling is only material. If you want to enter the work, you must first experience a personality disintegration.
The process of transforming personal feelings into universal artistic feelings will
The process of transforming experience into art. A direct lyric poet who opposes romanticism.
In Hamlet (19 19), Fa Eliot thinks that "in art".
The only way to express emotions in the form of surgery is to find an "objective counterpart".
That is, "a group of things, a situation, a series of events, they are what you want to express."
The formula of that kind of special emotion "as long as this kind of thing happens. ...
That emotion also triggered. "This is the symbolic meaning of specific things.
The creative method of suggestive emotion focuses on discovering the darkness in the text for new critics.
It is very influential to show ambiguity.
Richards believes that poetic language is special and cannot reflect objective facts.
Real emotional language (science and poetry, 1925), and poetry.
Words have complex meanings because of the influence of context (practical criticism,
1929) and other opinions prompted the new criticism to emphasize literal analysis and poetry.
The richness and complexity of.
In 1930s and 1940s, the new criticism developed the theory of poetic language.
And the analysis of specific works. Empson's masterpiece Seven Hazes.
(1930) thinks that the vaguer the meaning of a word, the richer it is and the higher the value of a poem. orchid
In the new criticism, Sam thinks that poetic language has a "skeleton" (referring to the Lord
The logic of thought or poetry) and "texture" (from words to punctuation
Art processing) conflict characteristics. Brooks in "Simulation-A Kind"
The structural principle (195 1) changes the context of this poem to a declarative statement.
It is called "ridicule" and is the main principle of any poetic structure. peaceful
Especially in On the Tension of Poetry (1938), the meaning of poetry is defined as discourse.
"Implied" (figurative meaning) and "extended" (logical meaning).
The "tension" formed, the tension is finally balanced or reconciled, and poetry counts.
Success.
In the comments on specific works, the new criticism advocates symbolism and metaphysics.
School, belittling poets such as Milton, Byron and Shelley. Their theory and work
This movement paved the way for modernist poetry.