Strengths+and+Weaknesses+of+New+Criticism

=Strengths-=
 * ===Looks to the best, accurate interpretation===
 * ===Best used on poems and short stories===
 * ===Text is independent of history and culture===
 * ===Uses formal elements to form interpretation===
 * ===Makes a scientific approach of literary criticism===
 * ===Develops "close reading" skills===
 * ===Looks at "the text itself"===

=Weaknesses-=
 * ===Fails to look at themes ===
 * ===Can't be used on longer text, novels, plays ===
 * ===Confines to a certain singular aspect (imagery, role of narrator or minor characters, function of time, pattern of light or dark due to setting) ===
 * ===Incomplete criticism that ignores (Historical Aspects, Moral Aspects, Production / Reception, Psychological Aspects, Gender Aspects) ===
 * ===Focused on a single interpretation ===
 * ===Looks at "the text itself" ===