{"product_id":"the-cultural-politics-of-the-new-criticism-hardback-9780521416528","title":"The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (Hardback) 9780521416528","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cultural Politics of the New Criticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMark Jancovich examines the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Jancovich (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521416528, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 November 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in order to examine the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy in the late 1930s and 1940s. This critical movement managed to transform the teaching and study of English through a series of essays published in journals such as the Southern Review and the Kenyon Review. Jancovich argues that the New Criticism was not an example of bourgeois individualism, as previously held, but that it sprang from a critique of modern capitalist society developed by pre-capitalist classes within the American South. In the process, he clarifies the distinctions between the aims of these three Southern poets from those of the next 'generation' of New Critics such as Cleanth Brooks, Warren and Welleck, and Wimsatt and Beardsley. He also claims that the failure on the part of most contemporary critics to identify the movement's ideological origins and aims has usually meant that these critics continue to operate within the very professional terms of reference established through the New Critical transformations of the academy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The New Criticism and its Critics: 1. Contemporary responses to the New Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The historical  context of the New Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Before the New Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Formation of the New Criticism: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 4. John Crowe Ransom: the social relations of aesthetic activity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Allen Tate: the social organisation of literature\u003cbr\u003e 6. Robert Penn Warren: against propaganda and irresponsibility\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the analysis of a Southern poet\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Establishment of the New Criticism: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 7. The origins of academic involvement\u003cbr\u003e 8. Understanding literature: textbooks and the distribution of the New Criticism\u003cbr\u003e 9. The form of criticism\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Development of the New Criticism: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 10. John Crowe Ransom: the isolation of aesthetic activity\u003cbr\u003e 11. Allen Tate: the man of letters and the cold war\u003cbr\u003e 12. Robert Penn Warren: literature and social engagement\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Conclusion: Modernism and Postmodernism Within the American Academy: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 13. The professionalization of literary study\u003cbr\u003e 14. The New Critical intervention\u003cbr\u003e 15. Cultural criticism and postmodernity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007259496728,"sku":"9780521416528","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521416528_1eea7db8-e464-4768-9299-ac4986fbdc32.gif?v=1691381372","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cultural-politics-of-the-new-criticism-hardback-9780521416528","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}