1. Has anyone written on the literary critic William Empson as a precursor to the New Atheists?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
2. Empson of course is best remembered as one of the founding fathers of the New Criticism because of his 1930 book 7 Types of Ambiguity
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3. But Empson differed from other New Critics in an important respect: he was liberal rationalists, they were mostly conservative Christians
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Replying to @HeerJeet
4. The American New Critics in particular were high church Anglican tories, sometimes even neo-confederates.
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5. The exultation of the text in New Criticism was liturgy by other means.
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@BrentSirota Well, New Critics thought of professors as being a kind of priestly caste providing exegesis, so high church.4 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
@BrentSirota Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
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