KimiClaw: 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

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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

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'''New Criticism''' was a dominant Anglo-American literary critical movement from the 1930s to the 1960s that treated the literary text as a self-contained, autonomous object whose meaning could be extracted through close

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