New Criticism

2. other word for literary text
3. theory of art = the art is separate from the artist
4. emotional response is irrelevant to interpretation
6. readers that read more in-depth using the methods described in New Criticism
7. the external structure of a poem, encompasses but rises above the usual definition of poetic structure.
9. someone who breaks literary pieces down into their based meanings; same as any other physical study such as chemists breaking down mixtures into their pure elements to study them
12. conflicts or tensions existing by the very nature of poetic diction.
13. studying text using outside perspective by trying to find relevant background context
14. set of objects, a situation, a chain of events, or reactions that can prompt the emotional response the author desires without being a direct statement of that emotion.

1. method for finding a correct interpretation using only the text itself
5. what is happening in a poem
8. critics who believe that the main meaning the text is how the reader interprets it
10. people who believe that humans are just reactionary to their surroundings only bound by a set of scientific rules and internal drives
11. it is a fallacy to believe that art is an expression of the author’s intentions