Leroy Searle: The New Criticism Handout By Evelyn Turcios
About Author ● He is a successful professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington ● He is also a poet, author, and a musician ● Throughout his life he studied history, theory of criticism, american literature, modernism, music arrangement, photography, intellectual history, philosophy, computer science and many more ● He has published work on philosophers like Aristotle, plato, etc
Continued... I n 2007 he was named the first Hanauer Honors ● professor ● He is the founding director of the university of Washington humanities and art computer center ● He is now the chair of the UW intellectual property management advisory committee ● In 1965 he got his bachelor's degree in English from Utah state university ● Five years later he then got his master's and phd in English from the university of Iowa
About ● What I got out of it was it talked about what new criticism was a literary style of the early 20th century utilized by a lot of poets that underwent a lot of criticism because of all the different structural forms and the fact that it was difficult to comprehend people came up with a lot of different interpretations when reading ● The article goes through different forms Of new critic literature and a lot of opposing views or criticisms to the new critic literature style
My opinion ● I like Blackmur's response that a piece of literature should stand alone and be able to explain itself. Unfortunately that gives new critics a platform to say anything almost anyway it seemed and have nothing to compare or substantiate it with. There was a lot of suppositions in in New Critics literature, in my opinion it ● was one person's eccentric view point after the next, hidden in a literary style that denied any accountability to conservative literary thought. ● I do not agree with some new critic philosophies that poetry should replace religion or science.
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