literary criticism
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri ˈkrɪtɪsɪzəm/
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crítica literaria
- The professor's course on literary criticism helped students understand different interpretive approaches to texts.
- field of literary criticism
- modern literary criticism
- approach to literary criticism
So when it moves from their scholarly work into literary criticism, then we've got a problem here.
- So when it moves from their scholarly work into literary criticism, then we've got a problem here.
- Parmall's research ranges across ethics, aesthetics, theology, historiography and literary criticism.
Examples
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Anglo-American and especially British literary criticism has had an abiding predilection for ethical and methodological localism.
Academic text (1994) -
Until quite recently, the construct in various hermeneutic theories and literary criticism known as character has been neglected in literary studies.
Academic text (1990) -
Someone with a better knowledge of German literary criticism can perhaps let me know.
Blog text (8) -
I prefer good literary criticism.
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Over the past couple of centuries, literary criticism has made a number of advances.
Blog text (2) -
Writing Culture also relied heavily on ideas borrowed from literary criticism.
Academic text (1999) -
Victor Brombert's presidential address, cited above, appears in an issue devoted to articles about literary criticism.
Academic text (1992) -
I need to approach that material and all sorts of tangential revelations elsewhere than in literary criticism.
Fiction book (1994) -
In its twentieth-century incarnation in the universities, literary criticism has taken much of its energy from this localization movement.
Academic text (1994) -
In July, Keith was named one of our most promising young translators of fiction and poetry into English by the New York Times, and in April he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work in literary criticism.
Synonyms
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A review of a creative work such as a book or film
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A university subject about books, poems, plays, and what they mean
Study and discussion of books, poems, and plays
How Analytical
- Literature
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'literary' (relating to literature) modifies 'criticism' (analytical judgment), so the meaning 'criticism of literature' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Literary criticism links literary, meaning 'about books', with criticism, meaning 'to judge'. Imagine a reader pointing out the good and bad parts of a novel — that clear picture explains why literary criticism means 'the study and judgment of books'.