NEW CRITICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does new criticism mean? 

• NEW CRITICISM (noun)
  The noun NEW CRITICISM has 1 sense:

1. literary criticism based on close analysis of the text

  Familiarity information: NEW CRITICISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW CRITICISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Literary criticism based on close analysis of the text

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("new criticism" is a kind of...):

criticism; literary criticism (a written evaluation of a work of literature)