literary criticism
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Some organists might dabble in literary criticism too.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
"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
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
