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新批评是20世纪最重要的批评学派之一,上世纪20年代至50年代于英美盛极一时,深刻影响了后世文学批评。二战后,新批评理论几乎在所有美国大学文学系占据统治地位,大批文论家、美学家、大学教授归附新批评派。纳博科夫1940年移居美国,先后在威尔斯利学院、哈佛和康奈尔大学教俄语和文学课程,见证了新批评派在美国高校及文学理论界的盛况。厄普代克为纳博科夫《文学讲稿》所作前言指出:“50年代……信仰新批评理论……
The new criticism is one of the most important schools of criticism in the 20th century. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the United States and Britain were very prosperous and influenced profoundly the later literary criticism. After World War II, the new critical theory dominated almost all American university literature departments. A large number of theorists, estheticians and university professors attached themselves to the new critics. Nabokov emigrated to the United States in 1940 and taught Russian and literature classes at Wellesley College, Harvard and Cornell University, and witnessed the grandchildren of the new critics in American colleges and literary theory circles. Updike pointed out in his foreword to Nabokov’s ”Literary Contributions:" The 1950s ... Beliefs New Criticism ...