CRITICISM

Arc, Jonathan. “Repetition and Exclusion: Coleridge and New Criticism Reconsidered.” boundary 2 8, no. 1 (fall 1979): 261-73.

Discussion of Robert Penn Warren's reading of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner as an exercise that helped establish criticism as a major scholarly activity.

Core, George. “Southern Letters and the New Criticism.” Georgia Review 24, no. 4 (winter 1970): 413-31.

A defense of New Criticism, lauding the connection the New Critics helped establish between art and society.

Day, Douglas. “The Background of the New Criticism.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 24, no. 3 (spring 1966): 429-40.

An overview of the state of criticism at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as a brief history of the development of New Criticism.

Hart, Henry. “Robert Lowell and the New Critical Sublime.” Southern Review 28, no. 2 (spring 1992): 353-70.

Offers an account of the stylistic shifts in Robert Lowell's poetry and prose based on his perception of the theme of the sublime.

Lee, Brian. “The New Criticism and the Language of Poetry.” In Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style, Roger Fowler, pp. 29-52. London, England: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Presents an analysis of the preoccupation with the language of literature in modern critical thinking, and how this dependence affects critical study of literature.

Mao, Douglas. “The New Critics and the Text-Object.” ELH 63, no. 1 (spring 1996): 227-54.

Evaluates New Criticism and contends that this style of literary interpretation does in fact take into account the social and historical context of a work of literature.

Medici, Anthony J. “The Restless Ghost of New Criticism.” Style 31, no. 4 (winter 1997): 760-73.

Review of Spurlin and Fisher's book titled The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: Connections and Continuities.

Narasimhaiah, C.D. “New Criticism: An Assessment.” In Indian Essays in American Literature, Sujit Mukherjee and D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu, pp. 267-84. Bombay, India: Popular Prakashan, 1968.

Recounts the development of New Criticism as a literary theory, including brief interpretations of major authors and texts by the New Critics.

Ong, Walter J. “Rhetorical Culture to New Criticism: The Poem as a Closed Field.” In The Possibilities of Order: Cleanth Brooks and His Work, Lewis P. Simpson, pp. 150-67. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

Explores the relationship between the old rhetoric and the principles of New Criticism, focusing specifically on the integrity of the literary work and the place of this doctrine in the work of Cleanth Brooks.

Raleigh, John Henry. “The New Criticism As an Historical Phenomenon.” Comparative Literature 11, no. 1 (winter 1959): 21-28.

An evaluation of New Criticism as a mixture of art and science.

Ruoff, Gene W. “The New Criticism: One Child of the 30s That Grew Up.” The Thirties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama (1967): 169-74.

Brief overview of the main principles and proponents of New Criticism.