Which of the following assumptions are true in the context of New Criticism?

(A) The new movement in literature popularised closed reading of the text.

(B) The leading critics of New Criticism are Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, R.P. Blackmur and Kenneth Burke.

(C) The critical approach is extensively used in the study of novels and plays.

(D) This critical approach tends to discredit historical, social and political contexts of a work of literature.

(E) J.C. Ransom published a book New Criticism wherein he appreciates I.A. Richards, William Empson and T.S. Eliot.

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