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Historical and cultural context  \nB. Reader-response interpretation  \nC. Close reading of the text as a self-contained unit  \nD. Psychoanalytic interpretation  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nNew Criticism primarily emphasizes which of the following approaches to literature?  \nA. Historical and cultural context  \nB. Reader-response interpretation  \nC. Close reading of the text as a self-contained unit  \nD. Psychoanalytic interpretation  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nStatements:  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n1.T. S. Eliot contributed philosophical foundations to New Criticism.  \n2.I. A. Richards’ background in semantics shaped the movement.  \n3.William Empson brought a mathematically precise analytical method.  \n4.New Critics were generally politically conservative.  \n5.New Critics believed the text has no internal structure.  \nChoose the correct option:  \nA. 1, 2, 3, and 4  \nB. 1, 4, and 5  \nC. 2, 3, and 5  \nD. All five statements  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nStatements:  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n1.T. S. Eliot contributed philosophical foundations to New Criticism.  \n2.I. A. Richards’ background in semantics shaped the movement.  \n3.William Empson brought a mathematically precise analytical method.  \n4.New Critics were generally politically conservative.  \n5.New Critics believed the text has no internal structure.  \nChoose the correct option:  \nA . 1, 2, 3, and 4  \nB. 1, 4, and 5  \nC. 2, 3, and 5  \nD. All five statements  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nStatements:  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n1.Ransom defined structure as the fundamental organization or formal arrangement of a poem.  \n2.Texture refers to the poem’s surface details such as imagery, diction, and tonal patterns.  \n3.For Ransom, a critic must study structure but can safely ignore texture because it does not affect meaning.  \n4.“Total meaning” arises only when both structure and texture are examined together.  \n5.The distinction was introduced by Ransom in Tension in Poetry(1941) .  \nChoose the correct option:  \nA. 2, 3, and 4  \nB. 1, 3, and 5  \nC. 1, 2 and 4  \nD. All except 5  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nStatements:  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n1.Ransom defined structure as the fundamental organization or formal arrangement of a poem.  \n2.Texture refers to the poem’s surface details such as imagery, diction, and tonal patterns.  \n3.For Ransom, a critic must study structure but can safely ignore texture because it does not affect meaning.  \n4.“Total meaning” arises only when both structure and texture are examined together.  \n5.The distinction was introduced by Ransom in Tension in Poetry(1941) .  \nChoose the correct option:  \nA. 2, 3, and 4  \nB. 1, 3, and 5  \nC. 1, 2 and 4  \nD. All except 5  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nA Critic’s Job of Work belongs to which critic associated with the  \nidea of “language as gesture”?  \nA. R. P. Blackmur  \nB. I. A. Richards  \nC. Allen Tate  \nD. 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