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The 97 pages that link to Literary criticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary canonRelated: Critical judgments help establish which works are treated as exemplary or enduring.

• HermeneuticsRelated: Literary criticism applies hermeneutical questions to form, historical setting, and meaning.

• Booker PrizeRelated: The prize’s choices provoke debate about literary merit and taste.

• New CriticismNarrower topic: New Criticism is one historically influential method within this broader practice.

• Historical source criticismCompared with: Literary interpretation may center aesthetic meaning where historical criticism tests evidentiary claims.

• MetafictionCompared with: Metafiction dramatizes criticism within fiction rather than functioning as criticism alone.

• Cultural studiesCompared with: Cultural studies broadened textual analysis beyond literature and aesthetic judgment.

• Canon formationRelated: Critics shape reputations by interpreting works and arguing for their value.

• Biblical exegesisRelated: Attention to narrative, poetry, and rhetoric helps clarify how biblical passages communicate.

• Close readingNarrower topic: Close reading supplies evidence and methods used across many critical approaches.

• PhilologyCompared with: It often interprets works without reconstructing their textual transmission or linguistic history.

• English literatureRelated: Critical methods shape how English works are read, compared, and placed in literary history.

• NarratologyNarrower topic: Narratology supplies structural tools, while literary criticism also addresses value, history, and interpretation.

• Biblical criticismRelated: It examines how biblical texts create meaning through literary design.

• Biblical hermeneuticsRelated: It examines how biblical genres and literary techniques shape meaning.

• Folklore studiesCompared with: Folklore studies also analyzes verbal art but gives special weight to transmission and social use.

• Kate MillettRelated: Millett reads novels as evidence of how culture represents gender and power.

• HumanitiesRelated: It shows how close reading can reveal meaning, form, and cultural assumptions.

• Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNarrower topic: His essays helped make criticism a major part of his literary legacy.

• Book reviewRelated: Reviews borrow critical methods to explain how a book creates meaning.

• EssayRelated: Critical essays make claims about texts and support them through close analysis.

• Mikhail BakhtinNarrower topic: Bakhtin’s concepts became widely used tools for analyzing narrative and language.

• ExegesisRelated: Literary features such as genre and narrative shape what an interpretation can plausibly claim.

• Literary theoryCompared with: Criticism applies judgments and readings to works, while theory examines the assumptions behind such practices.

• Christopher HitchensNarrower topic: Hitchens wrote criticism that connected literature to politics, history, and moral judgment.

• Literary biographyRelated: It supplies methods for relating a writer’s life to textual choices without treating them as identical.

• Literary censorshipCompared with: Criticism can condemn a work without suppressing its publication or access.

• SalonRelated: Salon discussion helped writers and audiences assess works before and beyond formal publication.

• William Dean HowellsRelated: His critical essays made realism a sustained public argument.

• CommentaryNarrower topic: Literary commentary is one form of criticism, though commentary also addresses nonliterary texts.

• French literary canonNarrower topic: Critical methods provide the judgments and categories that sustain or revise canonical status.

• Group 47Narrower topic: Group 47 turned criticism into a live, collective practice rather than a private review.

• Harold BloomNarrower topic: Bloom became one of the most widely read and debated literary critics of his era.

• Literary forgeryNarrower topic: Forgery complicates interpretation because a text's claimed author and context may be false.

• The New York Review of BooksNarrower topic: The magazine extends literary criticism into sustained essays on books and ideas.

• BookTokCompared with: BookTok discussion often prioritizes personal response and recommendation over sustained textual analysis.

• Historical-critical methodCompared with: It can focus on a text’s final literary design rather than reconstructing its history.

• Jonathan FranzenNarrower topic: His essays and reviews make criticism a substantial part of his work beyond fiction.

• SignRelated: Literary interpretation examines how signs generate meaning within texts.

• American literary realismRelated: Howells's defense of realism helped make debates over representation central to American criticism.

• Biblical studiesRelated: It treats biblical books as crafted works, attending to features beyond their historical origins.

• Georg BrandesNarrower topic: Brandes used criticism not only to assess books but to intervene in public life.

• Hippolyte TaineNarrower topic: Taine developed a historical and causal method within this broader practice.

• John ForsterNarrower topic: Forster’s critical work and biography both interpreted writers for a reading public.

• Theater criticismCompared with: It often centers the written play, whereas theater criticism also evaluates its staged realization.

• Viktor ShklovskyNarrower topic: His formalist method redirected criticism toward a work’s devices and organization.

• Akutagawa PrizeRelated: Public debate about winners makes the prize a recurring site of criticism and evaluation.

• Gaston BachelardNarrower topic: His studies of images and reverie became influential resources for interpreting poetry.

• Jean PaulhanNarrower topic: Paulhan’s essays and editorial judgments made criticism part of his literary practice.

• Benedetto CroceNarrower topic: His criticism influenced generations of Italian scholars and centered on a work’s expressive unity.