New and Improved!
No it isn’t a car, it’s New Criticism.
Notes:
- Concentrates of text
- Rejects all other attributes (morals, themes, history)
- Mistaken for having fallacies:
o Affective: imputing own emotion into a work
o Intentional: assuming the authors intention (you have no way of knowing what an author thought about work)
- T.S. Elliot: known for formation of “objective correlative”
- OC = art should not be personal expression, but represent universal symbols.
- Example: all nursery rhymes that do not offer morals
- Semantic redundancy comes from morals, new criticism.
- Words cannot have interpretations. They are what they are.
