last class

During the first few classes, I was pretty overwhelmed by all of the information that was coming to me. I was worried I was not going to understand what was going on in class and generally feel like I was drowning. However, after last class, I feel a whole lot better about things, and I have more confidence that I will be able to actively participate in class and have insightful posts on my blog. I sometimes have a hard time comprehending even the most straightforward of texts; so going over the reading in Barry really helped me. By the lecture and discussion in class, I understood that New Criticism is just a close reading of a text; there is no bias in this reading, it is just what the text is, and not what the text means to anyone. During this class, I wondered what the results of reading something like the Bible in a New Criticism view would be like. Would it even be possible? While reading the Bible through this scope, one would be able to appreciate the form and art of the text, but how could one read something like the Bible and not think of it as relating to anything else. I feel like it would be very hard to just look at the text and not see any subtext. Any opinions on this one?