Literary theory 2: Structuralism, Deconstruction, and more, hooray!
The Bookening
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The New Critical Approach to Literature
New criticism aimed at bringing a greater intellectual rigor to literary studies, confining itself to careful scrutiny of the text alone. "It's not just a perfect scientific artifact that you can examine as if it's this inevitable gemstone," he says. But notice there is still inherent meaning in the poem and we have to bring some of that into it too.
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