Usually means: Analyzing text without external context.
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  1. New Criticism, New Criticism: Merriam-Webster
  2. New Criticism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. New Criticism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. New Criticism, New criticism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (New Criticism)

noun:  A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.

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