100 PTS !!!!! What school of literary criticism is being described in this excerpt: "It is predictable in its insistence on fissures and disharmonies in the text, sometimes enlarging minor ambiguities into major uncertainties and problems. It is rigid in its knack of ruling out of hand various empirical materials such as historical events"? (Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory, X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, and Mark Bauerlein)

A.
deconstructionist

B.
psychological

C.
formalist

D.
reader–response