TY - BOOK ID - 77896758 TI - The birth of New Criticism PY - 2013 SN - 9780773589247 0773589244 0773589236 9780773589230 9780773542112 0773542116 PB - Montreal [Quebec] Beaconsfield, Quebec DB - UniCat KW - New Criticism KW - Criticism KW - History. KW - Empson, William, KW - Richards, I. A. KW - Riding, Laura, KW - Graves, Robert, KW - Graves, Robert Ranke KW - Graves, Robert KW - Jackson, Laura (Riding), KW - Richards, Ivor Armstrong, KW - Rītshārdz, A., KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Ranke-Graves, Robert von, KW - Von Ranke-Graves, Robert, KW - Doyle, John, KW - Грейвз, Роберт, KW - גרייבס, רוברט KW - גרייבס, רוברט, KW - Rich, Barbara UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896758 AB - Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy. ER -