literary criticism

C8718
concept

Literary criticism is the disciplined analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works to understand their meanings, techniques, contexts, and cultural significance.

All labels observed (30)

Label Occurrences
literary criticism canonical 50
critical study 49
work of literary theory 17

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Class: literary criticism
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Literary criticism is the disciplined analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works to understand their meanings, techniques, contexts, and cultural significance.

Instances (161)

Instance Via concept surface
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic critical study
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. critical study
The Uses of Enchantment
The New Historicism
surface form: New Historicism
literary theory
Considerazioni intorno ai Discorsi del Machiavelli critical commentary
The Theory of the Novel work of literary theory
The Historical Novel work of literary theory
Criticism and Fiction
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark (essays and criticism contexts)
surface form: Playing in the Dark
“Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”
surface form: Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature
De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales literary critical treatise
Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theatre critical study
An Apology for Poetry literary treatise
The Verbal Icon work of literary theory
Practical Criticism work of literary theory
Alaṅkāraśāstra (Sanskrit poetics)
surface form: Alaṅkāraśāstra
literary theory
Kāvyādarśa literary criticism text
New York theatre reviews cultural criticism
Degeneration
Something Torn and New
"The Hero in Modern Poetry" (essay)
surface form: The Hero in Modern Poetry
literary_criticism_work
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Linguistics and Poetics literary theory essay
Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics literary theory essay
Michel Foucault et ses contemporains critical study
Recurrent Patterns in Punjabi Poetry literaryCriticismBook
An Introduction to Shah Hussain critical study
An Introduction to Bulleh Shah critical study
An Introduction to Waris Shah critical study
An Introduction to Sultan Bahu critical study
An Introduction to Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
An Introduction to Khawaja Farid critical study
An Introduction to Shah Sharaf critical study
An Introduction to Sachal Sarmast critical study
An Introduction to Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai critical study
An Introduction to Rahman Baba critical study
An Introduction to Shah Inayat critical study
Shelley: An Essay
How Everyone Became Depressed critical study
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
"If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents"
surface form: If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents
The World’s Body
Kafka y sus precursores texto crítico
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius
al-Fukuk commentary literature
Voyage d’un critique en Allemagne