Inwards Outwards and Everything in Between

Centrifugal and Centripetal
Centripetal is staying inside the text
Centrifugal is going outside the text

I think it is great how these two words that we had discussed in the first part of the semester make their way into the later part of the semester in relation to the literary criticism groups.
there seems to be two groups that can be created and fit perfectly inside these two groups. i would venture to say that the deconstructionist as well as the New Critics would without a doubt fall under the category of centripetal being that they look at literary criticism as something that can only be taken from inside the text. and then you look at groups like the Marxist or the feminists and they see literary criticism as texts that need to be explored in various aspects of our lives, taking in consideration our social standing and what a persons situation maybe at the time. i just think that it is amazing that two words that we talked about in this class actually classify as broad ideas in which groups of literary criticism fall under