new criticism

1. 1.

   literary criticism based on close analysis of the text

   Broadercriticism

Questions about new criticism

What does new criticism mean?

new criticism means "literary criticism based on close analysis of the text".

Is new criticism a common word?

new criticism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.