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.

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All labels observed (30)

Label	Occurrences
literary criticism canonical	50
critical study	49
work of literary theory	17
literary controversy	7
literary theory	7
literary_criticism_work	5
literary theory concept	3
literary theory essay	3
critical commentary	2
literary treatise	2
Korean literary criticism	1
area of literary studies	1
commentary literature	1
commentary on poetry	1
concept in literary criticism	1
cultural criticism	1
field of literary theory	1
literary commentary	1
literary critical treatise	1
literary criticism text	1
literary criticism tradition	1
literary dependence theory	1
literary-critical tradition	1
literaryCriticismBook	1
literary_criticism_essay	1
literary_study	1
subject of literary analysis	1
text on literary theory	1
texto crítico	1
theatrical criticism work	1

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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
Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire	critical study
Pope–Theobald controversy	literary controversy
L’Espace littéraire	—
the neuter (le neutre)	literary theory concept
Allegories of Reading	work of literary theory
Goethe_and_other_modern_writers	literary_study
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act	work of literary theory
Marxism and Form	work of literary theory
The Prison-House of Language	—
Archaeologies of the Future	critical study
The Theatre of Visions: Robert Wilson	critical study
Queer Theatre	critical study
The Original Theatre of the City of New York: From the Mid-Sixties to the Mid-Seventies	critical study
The World of C. Wright Mills	critical study
Illness as Metaphor	—
Martin Marprelate controversy	literary controversy
Borges: el espejo y el laberinto	critical study
Writing Degree Zero	work of literary theory
The Pleasure of the Text	work of literary theory
death of the author surface form: Death of the author	literary theory concept
Prousts motor	—
Temple–Bentley controversy	literary controversy
The Age of Bowie	critical study
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography	critical study
The Tangled Bank	work of literary theory
The Promised End	—
the Usher bloodline surface form: Usher bloodline	subject of literary analysis
The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought	—
New Maps of Hell	—
On Moral Fiction	—
Thirty Years: Lincoln Kirstein’s The New York City Ballet	critical study
Sharḥ al-Burda	commentary on poetry
Film Begets Film	critical study
Battle of Hernani	literary controversy
On Romances	literary_criticism_work
The Social Context of Modern English Literature	critical study
Peckinpah: The Western Films – A Reconsideration	critical study
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry	—
publication of My Mother’s Keeper in 1985	literary controversy
Yongbi eocheonga commentary	literary commentary
Milton and Modernity	—
Prose Writers of Germany	critical study
Stalin’s Russia and the Crisis in Socialism	critical study
iceberg theory	literary theory
theory of omission	literary theory
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War	—
The Dali Gallery: A Portrait	critical study
Dalí: A Study of His Life and Work	critical study
James Joyce studies	area of literary studies
The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism	critical study