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New Historicism reads literature as a cultural practice shaped by power. This UGC NET English guide covers Greenblatt, self-fashioning, social energy, Montrose, cultural materialism, MCQs, and exam traps.
The language of paradox is the primary medium of poetry, according to Cleanth Brooks, because it allows writers to express complex emotional truths that logic and science cannot reach. In...
Last updated: April 28, 2026 The Chicago School Neo-Aristotelians were a group of literary critics based at the University of Chicago from the 1930s onward who revived Aristotle’s...
Learn I. A. Richards' two uses of language, scientific and emotive, with clear exam notes, examples, and New Criticism links.
Understand I.A. Richards' concept of the four kinds of meaning (Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention) and how it shaped New Criticism and modern literary study.
Understand the intentional fallacy and affective fallacy in New Criticism. Clear notes with exam relevance for UGC NET English and RPSC First Grade.
Learn what close reading means, how to do it, and why it matters for New Criticism, structuralism, and exam answers in literary criticism today.
An autotelic text is a literary work that carries its meaning entirely within itself. It does not depend on the author’s biography, historical context, or a reader’s emotional...
New Criticism is one of the most important schools of literary theory in the twentieth century. It changed how readers approach a text by insisting that the poem...
Introduction T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” published in 1919, remains one of the most influential essays in literary criticism. The essay revolutionized how we understand the...