The birth of New Criticism : conflict and conciliation in the early work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Laura Riding, and Robert Graves / Donald J. Childs.

Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Critic...

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Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 -- An Old Anxiety about Influence -- 2 -- A Question of Conflict -- 3 -- Mediating The Poetic Mind: “as many meanings as possibleâ€? -- 4 -- The Limits of Poetic Consciousness -- 5 -- Models of Practically Ambiguous Criticism -- 6 -- Defence of Poetic Analysis -- 7 -- The Ambiguous Grammar of Romantic Psychology -- 8 -- Associations -- 9 -- Taxonomies of Types -- 10 -- Remembering Graves in Revision -- 11 -- Richards and the Graves(t) Danger -- 12 -- How Graves Shapes Richardsâ€?s Principles 
505 8 |a 13 -- Conflict Theory in Science and Poetry14 -- Riding Corrects Richards (and Graves) -- 15 -- Asserting the Poemâ€?s Autonomy contra Richards -- 16 -- From Slow Reading to Close Reading: Escaping the Stock Response -- 17 -- Taking New Stock of Stock Responses -- 18 -- Poetry, Interpretation, and Education -- 19 -- Anthology Culture, Self-Reliance, and Self-Development -- 20 -- Slow Wit, Slow Close Reading, and Paraphrase -- Notes -- Index 
520 |a Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy. 
600 1 0 |a Empson, William,  |d 1906-1984  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Richards, I. A.  |q (Ivor Armstrong),  |d 1893-1979  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Riding, Laura,  |d 1901-1991  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Graves, Robert,  |d 1895-1985  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
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