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Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative, sometimes intelligible, (or articulate) way.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Criticism"

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Criticism Books

Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Orientalism
A Room of One’s Own
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
Poetics
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Lists

"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoItalian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallumWar On Critics by Theodore L. ShawResonating Reflex A Critical Investigation Of The Physical An... by John RuddA Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner
'Critic'
167 books — 5 voters
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenYou Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale HurstonFinding Me by Viola DavisBlack Flora by Teresa J. Speight
2022 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
111 books — 16 voters

"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoA Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. GreenfieldComedy by Robert W. CorriganAn Aristocracy of Critics by Stephen BatesCritical Enthusiasm by Jordana Rosenberg
"Critic"
104 books — 4 voters
The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
463 books — 107 voters

A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length by Roger EbertI Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger EbertA Massive Swelling by Cintra WilsonShit, Actually by Lindy WestAyoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
Funniest Criticism
8 books — 2 voters
Sim One by Tom AhernBig Book of Unique Names for Characters by Aimard R.MaknedaFiction à la Carte by Paska D.The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanHow Fiction Works by James Wood
Writing
36 books — 13 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Criticism”

W. Somerset Maugham
“ People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. ”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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Susan Sontag
“ Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag
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