A Loaded View: the Anglo-Saxon New Criticism in the Serbian Critical Thought
Abstract
The paper clearly highlights the genesis of the historical development of the Anglo-Saxon New Criticism as a method of interpreting literature — primarily poetry — and its theoretical assumptions, with the intention of establishing its creative echoes on the horizon of the Serbian literary thought. To this end, considerable divergences in the presentation and interpretation of the New Criticism are first considered, from which two dominant currents emerge: seeing the New Criticism as an approach strictly immanent to the literary text in the spirit of “esoteric aestheticism” and, the broader understanding of it, as a direction of interpretation, which in its resistance to the doctrine of the positivist-philological approach to the literary work, starts from the immanent relations of the text, but does not ignore the context of its creation. The paper attempts to provide a basic overview of the productive adaptation of the principle of New Criticism in the Serbian critical thought from the 1970s onwards, and as representatives of this approach to literature, it presents the critical works of Nikola Koljević, Bogdan A. Popović and Dušan Puvačić.
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