What is the viewpoint advocated by the new criticism?

It advocates analyzing literary works in isolation from social and historical conditions, writers' life experiences, world outlook and other "external" factors. They advocate the so-called "closed reading", which requires critics to explain the specific meaning of the text, find out the intersection of individual words in the context, and reveal the psychological meaning of metaphor, symbol and the whole symbolic system. In the 1920s, Eliot and Richards respectively laid the theoretical foundation of new criticism with the poetic concept of symbolism and the critical method of text analysis. In 1930s and 1940s, New Criticism developed the theory of poetic language and the analysis of specific works. Their theory paved the way for modernist poetry.