Importance Of Textual Criticism In Literature

experience between the author and readers or hearers. It looks at the structure of the text, development of plot, the role of the language are the main concern in this method.
This method includes textual criticism, literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, narrative criticism, genre studies, and canonical criticism.
4.1. Textual Criticism
Textual criticism is a method, which tries to re-establish the original text of an ancient document.
None of the original manuscripts, or autographs, of any biblical writing has been preserved.
The discipline of textual criticism works to establish the wording of the text as originally produced and to determine where, when, how, and why the text came to be changed over the course of its transmission. Process of finding the original text is known as textual criticism of New Testament.
Textual analysis also called ‘lower criticism’ or ‘textual criticism’. The aim of this process is, restructure the exact words of the original writer. The exegetical process can go on the established text.
While studying a biblical text, the exegete often comes across different wordings, or variant readings, for the same passage. This may be noticed when one reads the same passage in different translations.

This method looks at the biblical narrative not as a historical source that something lies behind the text. But, it looks at the narrative as a literary text that may be analysed in literary terms that is plot, characterization, point of view in narrative like other works of literature.
Narrative criticism reads biblical narratives as literature or story, taking a fiction approach, which treats the text as art or poetry. They interpret the text in its final form in terms of its own story world. A narrative critic’s close reading assumes literary integrity and reads the text holistically. The text is processed consecutively and the parts are related to the