It is the legacy of new criticism (e.g. Cleanth Brooks, the well wrought urn. Most of our teachers - or teacher's teachers - grew up when this was the new fancy way of reading. You are unlikely to have found any of the new critical views clearly expressed since many of them had become accepted practice. Ideas like 'close reading' are a legacy.
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Date: 2010-02-22 01:56 pm (UTC)