Criticism

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

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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
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Ordinary Notes
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Speaking in Tongues
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
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Mythologies
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
How Fiction Works
Poetics
Aspects of the Novel
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Flannery O'Connor
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ...more
Flannery O'Connor

William Penn
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.") ...more
William Penn

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