literary critic
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri ˈkrɪtɪk/
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crítico literario
- But it should inspire a healthy caution in literary critics who borrow methods from the social sciences.
- literary critics and historians
- anthropologist and literary critic
- literary critics and sociologists
Jin Lee is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic.
- Jin Lee is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic.
- It's contained in one of the works of the famous judge and literary critic who hailed from Baghdad in modern day Iraq.
- And science fiction got better and better for the literary critics and generally worse and worse for the science fiction fans.
- OK, now my point in all of this and boring those of you who are not literary critics is that in highlight.
Examples
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The work of literary critics as well as media theorists shows that this topic is ripe for further investigation.
Academic text (2017) -
You should give that some thought if you're really considering becoming a literary critic.
Fiction book (1998) -
And science fiction got better and better for the literary critics and generally worse and worse for the science fiction fans.
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I am not suggesting, as others have, that literary critics should stop doing cultural criticism.
Academic text (1999) -
One can still, though, make some generalizations about the way that literary critics use the term.
Academic text (1999) -
Literary critics in many countries regarded it as the most depraved book ever published in the history of literature.
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Harold Bloom, the great literary critic where I work and teach here at Yale, called one of his books on Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human.
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In addition to being a leftist, Judith Butler is a very distinguished literary critic and scholar.
Blog text (29) -
Among the most influential interpretations of festivity is that of the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin.
Academic text (1990) -
A literary critic analyzes the symbolism in contemporary novels to enhance readers' understanding.
Synonyms
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A person who gives opinions about art, books, films, or music, often as a job
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3.1
A person who reads and checks the quality of a paper, proposal, or code
A person who looks at ideas or texts carefully to find their meaning
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who evaluates works of literature' is directly and compositionally derived from 'literary' (concerning literature) + 'critic' (someone who issues opinions). This noun-noun combination follows a straightforward modifier-head pattern common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase literary critic comes from the two words literary (about books and writing) and critic (a person who judges). Picture someone with a red pen marking a book to show what is strong or weak; that's why a literary critic means 'a person who studies and judges books'.