New criticism

New Criticism was the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the mid twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Its adherents were emphatic in their advocacy of close reading and attention to texts themselves, and their rejection of criticism based on extra-textual sources, especially biography. At their best, New Critical readings were brilliant, articulately argued, and broad in scope, but sometimes they were idiosyncratic and moralistic.
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Noun
1. literary criticism based on close analysis of the text
(hypernym) criticism, literary criticism

   A fashionable approach to literary criticism in the nineteen forties, fifties and sixties. The idea was that each literary work could be analyzed without reference to the author, his life or his time,or anything outside the text itself.  For some new critics, the preferred text was poetry which was not to be violated by paraphrase or similar devices meant to elucidate the text.   New criticism was not postmodern because it held that there was one true meaning for each text and ignored the ambiguity of text.  Click here for more detail.  Or click here.

Eng: new criticism
Urdu: جدِيد تنقِيد؛ نئي تنقِيد؛