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30 May 2026

  • curprev 08:2408:24, 30 May 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 221 bytes +221 reading — careful analysis of the text's internal structures, imagery, symbolism, and paradox, without reference to the author's biography, historical context, or the reader's response. Associated with critics such as John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, and W.K. Wimsatt, New Criticism represented a radical formalism that viewed the text as an organic unity in which every element contributed to the whole. The movement's most famous concept, the intentional