New Criticism

Target entity: New Criticism
Context triple: [The Waste Land, influenced, New Criticism]

• A. New Formalism
  New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
• B. Bloomfieldian structuralism
  Bloomfieldian structuralism is a behaviorist, empiricist approach to linguistics that analyzes language through distributional patterns of observable forms, emphasizing description over innate mental structures.
• C. The Mutability of Literature
  "The Mutability of Literature" is a reflective essay by Washington Irving, presented as part of his Sketch Book, that meditates wryly on the transience of books and literary fame.
• D. paranoiac-critical method
  The paranoiac-critical method is a Surrealist creative technique developed by Salvador Dalí that uses self-induced paranoid states and irrational associations to generate visionary, dreamlike imagery and ideas.
• E. Analysis and Metaphysics
  Analysis and Metaphysics is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that offers a systematic introduction to central issues in analytic metaphysics, including concepts such as individuals, identity, and the structure of reality.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: New Criticism
Target entity description: New Criticism is a 20th-century literary theory movement that emphasizes close reading and analysis of a text’s formal elements while downplaying authorial intent and historical context.

• A. New Formalism
  New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
• B. Bloomfieldian structuralism
  Bloomfieldian structuralism is a behaviorist, empiricist approach to linguistics that analyzes language through distributional patterns of observable forms, emphasizing description over innate mental structures.
• C. The Mutability of Literature
  "The Mutability of Literature" is a reflective essay by Washington Irving, presented as part of his Sketch Book, that meditates wryly on the transience of books and literary fame.
• D. paranoiac-critical method
  The paranoiac-critical method is a Surrealist creative technique developed by Salvador Dalí that uses self-induced paranoid states and irrational associations to generate visionary, dreamlike imagery and ideas.
• E. Analysis and Metaphysics
  Analysis and Metaphysics is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that offers a systematic introduction to central issues in analytic metaphysics, including concepts such as individuals, identity, and the structure of reality.
• F. None of above. chosen