#newcriticism

[firsteditionbookblog]

I've been doing some reading on New Criticism over the last couple weeks and kept remembering this letter I bought at auction. This is a response letter from Cleanth Brooks to Charles Salaki in which Brooks confronts the notion that New Criticism bypasses historical or social aspects of a text. You can almost hear the annoyance in Dr Brooks text (though a somewhat un-unified tone if you ask me). Anyway, a fun little insight (and distraction) from my studies! Signed hand typed letter, dated 1990. . . . . . #cleanthbrooks #newcriticism #robertpennwarren #pennwarren #signed #litcrit #literarycriticism #books #bookcollector #bookcollecting #bookcollection #bookphotography #bookporn #shelfie #bookstagram #southern #southernlit #kentucky

[the-lazy-scholar]

What's white, black, and red all over? #mygreeklife #housemomrules #transfer #homework #newcriticism

[mymindinformaldehyde-blog]

someone please help if you're good at poems?

I have to do new criticism on this poem and I'm totally lost...

Blind Boy, Fourth of July

Kiwi slices, she tells him. Hundreds of starfish

hanging midair. Dragon castles. Palm trees on fire.

Echoes turn to mushrooms deep in his head.

At the end fusillades, pause, and then boom,

battle horses wandering lost within canyons,

heavy space, broken heart, Hiroshima moon.

She tells him it will be the same way with love,

that love has its history, its Fourth of July,

though she also said once that it lasted forever,

made its own treaties, wore its own sky.

He believes that in time all the stars will fall down,

though she said she would love him till then,

that even in sky death, the whole world gone blind,

she would come to him, stardust in the palms of her hands.

She would tell him they could find errant stars once again,

raise them on kites, float them out across the sky.

He knows it's not true. Then he opens his eyes.

[fishyland-blog]

Do you know what "intentional fallacy" means?

According to New Criticism this term refers to the mistaken belief that the author's intention is the same as the text's meaning.