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Brief Introduction of New Criticism

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  A Brief Introduction of New Criticism
  1.     Historical Development
  The New Criticism, which is also called Modernism, Formalism, Aesthetic Criticism, Textual Criticism or Ontological Criticism, starts with the publication of Principles of Literary Criticism of I. A. Richards in 1924, and dominates the American literary criticism from the 1930s to the 1960s. In its prime time, all the students of literary in universities and colleges applied such a theory to analyze literary work, especially poetry. Two features are worthy of mention when we trace back to the origin of this literary school. They are I. A. Richards and T. S...