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v. t. e. A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not ...
Category. : Books of literary criticism. Books of literary criticism, the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always ...
After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, [3] including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm.
Judith Butler: Post-structuralist feminism. Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Latina literary theory. Ilan Stavans: Latino cultural theory. Frederick Luis Aldama: Latino literature in the United States. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Queer theory. Fredric Jameson: Marxist criticism. Categories: American literary critics. American literature.
Howard Jacobson. Frank Raymond " F. R. " Leavis CH (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York. Leavis ranked among the most prominent English-language critics in the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
578. ISBN. 978-1-57322-514-4. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
New Criticism developed as a reaction to the older philological and literary history schools of the US North, which focused on the history and meaning of individual words and their relation to foreign and ancient languages, comparative sources, and the biographical circumstances of the authors, taking this approach under the influence of nineteenth-century German scholarship.
First awarded. 1975 publications (1976) Website. bookcritics.org. The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English". [1] The first NBCC awards were announced and presented January 16, 1976.