单词 | literary criticism |
释义 | > as lemmasliterary criticism literary criticism n. the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of a literary work; consideration or analysis of a text (cf. text n.1 1, text n.1 Additions) in relation to language, structure, biography, history, etc., or (in later use, frequently with modifying word) by a particular philosophical, political, or linguistic method; (also) an instance of this, esp. in a written form; a school or method of criticizing literature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] historical criticism1658 literary criticism1751 lit. crit.1963 1751 Ess. Antiq., Dignity, & Advantages Living in Garret 29 He thinks literary Criticism first began in a Garret, and can only be brought to Perfection there. 1751 R. Schomberg Ietro-rhapsodia 9 (note) These Gentlemen have even condescended so low as unnecessary literary Criticisms, what Authority have they. 1785 W. Shaw Mem. S. Johnson 138 This [sc. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare]..is become a valuable acquisition to literary criticism. 1841 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 7 Aug. 88/1 Mrs. Montague had..presumed to write a literary criticism upon a production of Pope, for which she was harshly treated by him. 1883 A. Trollope Autobiogr. II. xiv. 88 Literary criticism..has become a profession,—but it has ceased to be an art. 1905 C. F. Aked Courage of Coward (1907) 94 We have seen born, grow, flourish, a literary criticism of the Bible. 1965 O. Cargill Toward Pluralistic Crit. i. 9 Freudian literary criticism, a generic term for all types of analysis dealing with the creative psyche,..contains no inherent compulsion to abandon the text. 1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. vi. 110 Literary feminism has emerged as a countervailing force to deconstruction, helping to restore history to a respectable place in literary criticism. 2004 M. Baghramian Relativism (2005) i. iii. 107 This move from author to text was the harbinger of the new ‘anti-humanism’ and the proclamation of the..‘death of the author’..has become one of the battle-cries of postmodernist literary criticism. < as lemmas |
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