Which of the following is true about New Criticism?
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Correct answer: C. Its distinctive procedure is explication.
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New Criticism's procedure is explication or close reading of the autonomous text. It rejects historical and biographical approaches and the 'affective fallacy', and it centres on the single poem rather than genre.
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