31. He ridicules one of the methods of New Criticism , known today as close reading, describing it thus: 32. The death prompted new criticism from Jewish groups of Canada's poor record in prosecuting or deporting war criminals. 33. But the New Criticism changed this. 34. He was introduced to the latest schools of thought such as existentialism, New Criticism , and other intellectual movements. 35. Broad schools of theory that have historically been important include historical and biographical criticism, New Criticism , psychoanalytic criticism. 36. This is not brand-new criticism . 37. But when the so-called New Criticism emerged a decade later, biography was reborn as a means to understanding literature. 38. In the British and American literary establishment, the New Criticism was more or less dominant until the late 1960s. 39. New Criticism differs from Barthes'theory of critical reading because it attempts to arrive at more authoritative interpretations of texts.40. This section of the essay gives a faithful representation of literary formalism ( also known as New Criticism ).
