New Criticism (Video)

- Meaning is what the author is thinking when writing the piece

- Meaning might also be in the reader itself
- is a new way aside from the older styles of criticisms in which it focuses on the text itself. It
has what we call a “textual focus”.
- a style in which looks at what the text says.
- Close reading- reading the text carefully in order to get the true meaning of the text.
Reading the text painstakingly.
-Close reading can be done in portions.
-Close reading looks for tensions.
-Tensions resolved in unity. What unifies the whole work?