What does text analysis mean?

Text analysis refers to going deep into the text from the surface to find the deep meaning that ordinary reading can't grasp. Methods include new criticism, cultural studies and intertextuality. The method of new criticism is very basic, but it is also very practical, that is, carefully read out the non-daily usage of those languages, such as irony and tension.

Intensive reading has now become a basic skill including various text analysis. New criticism is very useful for the analysis of poems, short stories and other texts, but I don't know where to start with novels. Only by combining the analysis of narratology can it be easy to get to the point.

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In the late 1950s, new criticism gradually declined, but its advocacy and practice were based on semantic analysis of the text. The close reading method of new criticism is not an impressionistic criticism of egoism, but a "meticulous interpretation", which is a critical way to analyze and interpret works in detail.

In this kind of criticism, the critic seems to be reading every word with a magnifying glass, capturing the hints, hints and associations in literary words.

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