Center for Mark Twain Studies

Tag: John Crowe Ransom

The Chicago Fight (Criticism LTD, Episodes #6-7)

Sep 5, 2023

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Center for Mark Twain Studies

in Criticism LTD, The American Vandal

A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom’s 1937 essay, “Criticism Inc.”
The Racist Interpretation Complex (Criticism LTD, Episode #5)

Aug 28, 2023

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Center for Mark Twain Studies

in Criticism LTD, The American Vandal

What is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method: close reading?