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Definition:
New Criticism was a movement, popular between the 1930s and 1960s, which considered
itself "new" because it rejected what it called the "old" ways of critiquing literature:
focusing on authors' biographies and intellectual history.
The new critics thought that it was more important to simply focus on the words which were right in front of them, what the author actually wrote. This they called "close reading." Among the ideas they promoted were the intentional fallacy, the affective fallacy, and the heresy of paraphrase.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
