It's most associated with the attack on the "Heresy of Paraphrase" in Cleanth Brooks's The Well-Wrought Urn and with Wimsatt and Beardsley's essays attacking the affective and intentional fallacies.
Alan Golding's From Outlaw to Canon suggests that this movement was responsible for splitting theory and creative practice, while Rene Wellek's The Attack on Literature claims the charges against it ignore its basic human concerns. The subtitle of George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky distances itself from this movement, which is named for a book by John Crowe Ransom. It's most associated with the attack on the "Heresy of Paraphrase" in Cleanth Brooks's The Well-Wrought Urn and with Wimsatt and Beardsley's essays attacking the affective and intentional fallacies. Emphasizing uniqueness and internal unity in texts found through close reading, for 10 points, name this simply-titled movement of literary criticism that dominated the American academy through the mid-20th century.
Alan Golding's From Outlaw to Canon suggests that this movement was responsible for splitting theory and creative practice, while Rene Wellek's The Attack on Literature claims the charges against it ignore its basic human concerns.
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