Notes for the final part 1

New Criticism:
Came about because poetic interpretations were straying away from actual close readings of texts. I.A. Richards had a centerfold of poems which he had his students explicate-they didn't actually read the poems!
Focus in on the text only

Deconstruction:
There is no outside the text!
Stay inside the text. Everything is a text, that's making room for intertextuality or how texts speak to each other.

Feminism:
Don't discount DQ because there aren't strong females, but instead realize how different readings of the book can come about.

Reader response:
There are no "wrong" readings of a text. Personal associations are encouraged, as everything is relevant. Stanley Fish had his students explicate the "medieval religious poem" to great success, though it was really leftover notes from another course.

Most of these criticisms came about as reactions to New Criticism's exclusivity, which are like different sets of hats or glasses for critics to wear.

Anything labeled "random" or "chaotic" are simply forms of order we don't understand yet.