Essays in Appreciation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher B. Ricks
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Criticism, Creative process, Drama or dramatists, Biography
Although Christopher Ricks furnishes no subtitle to his book, an appropriate one might be “Beyond the New Criticism,” for he writes primarily in the new critical tradition. This school of critics became popular during the 1940’s through the writings of Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and numerous others. More a methodology than a critical theory, the movement stressed the integrity of the individual text over biographical, historical, or generic influences. It suggested that through explication—a systematic analysis of plot, characterization, style, tone, and...
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