On the Scientific Efforts of the New Criticism

This pap er discusses the inner contradictions and the limitations which the New Criticism displays in setting up scientific system of literature theory.Its scientific eff orts lie in that it builds a set of critical system including critical object an d principle and method.It is through a formalism way that the school pursues obj ectivity,positivism,preciseness and pat-tern of literary criticism,and this one -sidedness does not really make it scientific.According to its views on literary essence,this paper also analyses the relationship between literature and scienc e.