literary criticism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s standards of literary criticism, like his philosophy, are focused on realism, felt experience and humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

"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

Lovers of long-form literary criticism have a little less to lament today.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 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