"Understanding Poetry" by Brooks and Warren encapsulates the principles of
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A.
New Criticism
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B.
New historicism
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C.
Reader-response theory
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D.
Marxist criticism
Correct Answer:
A. New Criticism
Explanation:
The correct answer is New Criticism. Published in 1938, Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren became a foundational textbook for New Criticism. It shifted the focus of literary study away from biographical and historical context toward a rigorous, objective analysis of the text itself. By emphasizing "close reading" and the internal structure of poems, the book helped establish the New Critical approach as the dominant method of literary interpretation in mid-20th-century American universities.
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