... is not the critics' task to talk about emotion. T. S. Eliot is a member of new criticism. He focuses attention on tradition. In his classicism poetry, he emphasizes universal, in contrast with romanticism which emphasizes the individual. He says that no text can have an independent meaning. All texts depend on other texts for its meaning. So literary tradition, such as poems, belong ... is canceled out, since the text is a function of a system, not of an individual. Structuralism argues that any piece of writing, or any signifying system, has no origin, and that authors merely inhabit p...

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