nouvelle critique

French literature

Also known as: New Criticism

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In French literature: La Nouvelle Critique (French New Criticism)
” The new and subversive critical tendencies of the 1960s demanded more of the reader, who was to become an active participant in decoding the text, not a passive recipient. The term New Criticism (not to be confused with the Anglo-American New Criticism, developed…
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In French literature: La Nouvelle Critique (French New Criticism)
The term New Criticism (not to be confused with the Anglo-American New Criticism, developed after World War I, whose proponents were associated with the maintenance of conservative perspectives and structures) covers a wide range of very different practices and practitioners, from Georges Poulet and Jean-Pierre Richard to…
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In Georges Poulet
…a major exponent of the nouvelle critique (“new criticism”) of French literature that developed after World War II.
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