New Criticism is a dominant trend in literary criticism of the mid twentieth century.New Criticism,focusing on the text and emphasizing close reading,finds its excellence in poetry interpretation.This essay introduces...New Criticism is a dominant trend in literary criticism of the mid twentieth century.New Criticism,focusing on the text and emphasizing close reading,finds its excellence in poetry interpretation.This essay introduces the theoretical basis,the ap proach-close reading,and terms of New Criticism.The essay analyzes the metaphysical poem"Virtue"written by George Her bert by the use of New Criticism.展开更多
In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological refere...In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological references,their study focuses on a structural analysis of the famous Baudelairian sonnet at several levels such as phonological,phonetic,syntactic,prosodic,and semantic.Many critical papers were published as soon as this work appeared.Faced with the crowd of dispute and opposition,Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss wrote a series of journalistic or monographic articles to explain and defend themselves.Our study aims to be a systematic summary of the dispute,proposing to analyze the criticisms of Riffatere,Mounin,and Frandon,and giving a reading of Jakobson’s reply.In conclusion,we will try to relate this debate to the French New Criticism(la Nouvelle Critique)to understand its historical and theoretical importance.展开更多
文摘New Criticism is a dominant trend in literary criticism of the mid twentieth century.New Criticism,focusing on the text and emphasizing close reading,finds its excellence in poetry interpretation.This essay introduces the theoretical basis,the ap proach-close reading,and terms of New Criticism.The essay analyzes the metaphysical poem"Virtue"written by George Her bert by the use of New Criticism.
文摘In 1962,the Russian linguist Romain Jakobson and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss co-conducted a study on the poem The Cats(Les Chats)by Charles Baudelaire.Based on linguistic and ethnological references,their study focuses on a structural analysis of the famous Baudelairian sonnet at several levels such as phonological,phonetic,syntactic,prosodic,and semantic.Many critical papers were published as soon as this work appeared.Faced with the crowd of dispute and opposition,Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss wrote a series of journalistic or monographic articles to explain and defend themselves.Our study aims to be a systematic summary of the dispute,proposing to analyze the criticisms of Riffatere,Mounin,and Frandon,and giving a reading of Jakobson’s reply.In conclusion,we will try to relate this debate to the French New Criticism(la Nouvelle Critique)to understand its historical and theoretical importance.