Talk:Helen Gardner (critic)

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, thanks for expanding this; she certainly deserves this. I'm going through JSTOR, and a few minutes there provide at least two reviews for her Religion and Literature ([www.jstor.org/stable/3726216], [www.jstor.org/stable/514275]), a set of lectures that warrants a bit more than that sneer from the NYT (that citation needs completion). Those lectures, as well as her other work, is noted as having been influenced by her lifelong, stern Anglicanism, and I don't see that in the article yet either. Anyway, it seems as if her main problem with New Criticism as well as with structuralism was that both tend to do away with the author, and she was strangely fascinated by the concept and the person of the author. See this, for instance, and maybe this (better yet, this chapter), and this. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2020 (UTC)