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Literary Criticism Notes





LITERARY CRITICISM

The paradigms and the possibilities…





Literary criticism

is the study, discussion, evaluation,

and interpretation of literature.

DEFINITION …





"

Literary criticism is the evaluation of literary works.

This includes the classification by genre, analysis of

structure, and judgement of value."

Let's try again …





"

Literary criticism asks what literature is, what it does,

and what it is worth."

And again …



Literary criticism

is the method used to interpret any

given work of literature. The different schools of

literary criticism provide us with lenses which

ultimately reveal important aspects of the literary

work.

In my own words …