ENG280H1 Lecture : ENG280 - November 9 - Gallagher.docx

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Page 157 - 158 she describes the 4 major things about new criticism: no longer about language but about literature, literature still uses linguistic techniques that create difficulty and density that makes meaning problematic. Criticism = the study of technique: that"s why we have requirements so that we can study the changes and growth of technique. In the second half of the essay she starts to address the issue of content. In the "70s - "90s there was a reaction against new criticism. Gallagher gives the 2 overarching reactions to n. c: theory = paul de man. Importing fancy european theories about linguistics, social construction. Imagined that new criticism was na ve and silly. Gallagher points out that there is a lot of antagonism between new. 159 - share open-mindedness in the sense that they are heterogeneous, there is no discrimination between documents, anything can be read in an english departments.

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