literary criticism

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Some organists might dabble in literary criticism too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

"It's not literary criticism," he is keen to stress.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography," The New York Times wrote in a review.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023

There’s no way I can do this justice in text, but it’s essentially five minutes of close-read literary criticism that ends in tears and hysteria.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck