The great influx of Greek manuscripts from the East in the fifteenth century led to the development of a new interest in a form of literary analysis known as:
A)close reading.
B)New Criticism.
C)postmodernism.
D)textual criticism.
E)deconstructionism.

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The influx of Greek manuscripts led scholars to engage in a form of literary analysis known as textual criticism, which involved studying the variations and potential errors in different manuscript versions of a text. This was important for reconstructing the most accurate and authoritative version of ancient texts. Close reading, New Criticism, postmodernism, and deconstructionism are all later literary theories or movements that do not directly relate to the study of ancient texts.

The Great Influx of Greek Manuscripts from the East in the Fifteenth