Click here to evaluate my assignment. Name: Aarti H. Vadher Course: M.A (English) Topic: New criticism, Modernism, Postmodernism Semester: 2 Unit: 5 Roll.no: 5 Paper no.: 7 Email Id:artivadher10@gmail.com Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad, Smt: S.B.Gardi New Criticism, Modernism, Postmodernism New Criticism : New Criticism came by the publication of John Crowe Ransom’s ‘The Criticism’ in 1941. It came to be applied to a theory and practice that remained prominent in American Literacy Criticism up to late 1960s. This movement has the influence I.A. Richards ‘Principles of Literary Criticism’ (1924) and ‘Practical Criticism’ (1929) and from critical essay of T.S. Eliot. It opposed a prevailing interest of scholars, critics and teachers of that ear in the biographies of authors, in the social context of literature and in literacy history by insisting that the proper concern of literacy criticism is not wit...