In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three
leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom
and Allen Tate - in order to examine the development of the New
Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its
establishment within the academy in the late 1930s and 1940s. This
critical movement managed to transform the teaching and study of
English through a series of essays published in journals such as
the Southern Review and the Kenyon Review. Jancovich argues that
the New Criticism was not an example of bourgeois individualism, as
previously held, but that it sprang from a critique of modern
capitalist society developed by pre-capitalist classes within the
American South. In the process, he clarifies the distinctions
between the aims of these three Southern poets from those of the
next "generation" of New Critics such as Cleanth Brooks, Warren and
Welleck, and Wimsatt and Beardsley. He also claims that the failure
on the part of most contemporary critics to identify the movement"s
ideological origins and aims has usually meant that these critics
continue to operate within the very professional terms of reference
established through the New Critical transformations of the
academy.
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