Packet 8: Bonus 12

In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick asserts that the recent “method wars” were in fact debates over “ethos or affect” and defends this method as the essential craft of literary studies. For 10 points each:
[10e] What critical method of detailed attention to a text is often associated with New Criticism?
ANSWER: close reading [prompt on reading]
[10h] The term “method wars” was coined by Rita Felski, who has argued for this receptive critical attitude over the “suspicion” of close reading. Felski promoted this attitude in a 2015 book on the “limits” of its predecessor.
ANSWER: postcritique [accept postcriticism or postcritical readings] (Felski’s book is The Limits of Critique.)
[10m] John Guillory’s defense On Close Reading notes that the term was almost never used by New Critics like Cleanth Brooks, who deemed paraphrase “heresy” in this book. This book’s first essay reads John Donne’s “The Canonization.”
ANSWER: The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
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BrownUCF100010E
BruinGeorgia Tech A1001020EM
CambridgePittsburgh100010E
GeorgetownChicago B1001020EM
Illinois BWaterloo1001020EM
MITGeorgia Tech C0000
Maryland AUC Berkeley A1001020EM
Maryland BSwarthmore100010E
MichiganColumbia B1001020EM
NYU AColumbia A1001020EM
North CarolinaCornell1001020EM
Northwestern AIndiana1001020EM
Northwestern BPurdue100010E
Ohio StateGeorgia Tech B1001020EM
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Stanford AChicago A1001020EM
Stanford BPenn State100010E
TexasMinnesota1001020EM
Toronto AHarvard1001020EM
UC Berkeley BVirginia Tech1001020EM
UCLAVanderbilt1001020EM
VirginiaNYU B100010E
WashUToronto B100010E

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Main Site2026-04-17✓2415.4292%63%0%