"A kind of dual attentiveness": close reading after the New Criticism / John McIntyre and Miranda Hickman. Eliot, the Agrarians, and the political subtext of New Critical formalism / Alastair Morrison -- Androgyny and social upheaval: the gendered pretext of John Crowe Ransom's New Critical approach / Aaron Shaheen -- The fugitive and the exile: Theodor W. Adorno, John Crowe Ransom, and The Kenyon review / James Matthew Wilson -- No two ways about it: William Empson's enabling ambiguities / Bradley D. Clissold -- In pursuit of understanding: Louis Untermeyer, Brooks and Warren, and "The red wheelbarrow" / Connor Byrne -- Through fields of cacophonous modern masters: James Baldwin and New Critical modernism / Adam Hammond -- "Disagreeable intellectual distance": theory and politics in the old regionalism of the New Critics / Alexander MacLeod -- Teaching with style: Brooks and Warren's literary pedagogy / Tara Lockhart -- "A kind of dual attentiveness": close reading after the New Criticism / Cecily Devereux -- Toward a New Close reading / John McIntyre and Miranda Hickman.
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