SOURCE: Willingham, John R. “The New Criticism: Then and Now.” In Contemporary Literary Theory, G. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow, pp. 24-41. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.
In the following essay, Willingham follows the development of New Criticism from its earliest proponents in the 1930s to the later 1900s, detailing the evolution of the theory from its early days to the present, and offering a summary of the place New Criticism holds in modern literary studies.
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