04418nam 2200661 450 991080952790332120221206195245.00-7735-8924-40-7735-8923-610.1515/9780773589230(cabnvsl)mat42136342(CKB)2550000001192358(EBL)3332672(SSID)ssj0001130348(PQKBManifestationID)11659360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130348(PQKBWorkID)11109806(PQKB)10636978(OCoLC)872601159(OCoLC)875241313(OCoLC)ocn872601159(Au-PeEL)EBL3332672(CaPaEBR)ebr10833202(CaONFJC)MIL573021(OCoLC)923239350(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/wxbvr1(MiAaPQ)EBC3332672(DE-B1597)656670(DE-B1597)9780773589230(EXLCZ)99255000000119235820140203h20132013 uy| 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe birth of new criticism conflict and conciliation in the early work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Laura Riding and Robert Graves /Donald ChildsMontreal [Canada] :McGill-Queen's University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (viii, 399 pages)Canadian Publishers CollectionDescription based upon print version of record.0-7735-4211-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 - An Old Anxiety about Influence""; ""2 - A Question of Conflict""; ""3 - Mediating The Poetic Mind: “as many meanings as possibleâ€?""; ""4 - The Limits of Poetic Consciousness""; ""5 - Models of Practically Ambiguous Criticism""; ""6 - Defence of Poetic Analysis""; ""7 - The Ambiguous Grammar of Romantic Psychology""; ""8 - Associations""; ""9 - Taxonomies of Types""; ""10 - Remembering Graves in Revision""; ""11 - Richards and the Graves(t) Danger""; ""12 - How Graves Shapes Richardsâ€?s Principles""""13 - Conflict Theory in Science and Poetry""""14 - Riding Corrects Richards (and Graves)""; ""15 - Asserting the Poemâ€?s Autonomy contra Richards""; ""16 - From Slow Reading to Close Reading: Escaping the Stock Response""; ""17 - Taking New Stock of Stock Responses""; ""18 - Poetry, Interpretation, and Education""; ""19 - Anthology Culture, Self-Reliance, and Self-Development""; ""20 - Slow Wit, Slow Close Reading, and Paraphrase""; ""Notes""; ""Index""Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy.New CriticismHistoryNew CriticismHistory.410Childs Donald J898764eBOUND Canada,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809527903321The birth of new criticism4121217UNINA