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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveNarrower topic: His career helped establish the modern critic as a public interpreter of authors and books.

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.Narrower topic: Gates combines close reading with historical and cultural analysis.

• StylisticsNarrower topic: Stylistics supplies close linguistic evidence for claims about literary form and meaning.

• A. S. ByattNarrower topic: Her critical practice informs the scholarship and interpretive puzzles embedded in her novels.

• G. K. ChestertonNarrower topic: Chesterton’s criticism of Dickens, Browning, and other writers shaped his public reputation beyond fiction.

• Paul de ManNarrower topic: His arguments about reading reshaped twentieth-century literary criticism.

• Lionel TrillingNarrower topic: Trilling treated criticism as a way to examine literature’s moral and cultural meanings.

• Thomas De QuinceyNarrower topic: His essays helped establish a distinctive, historically minded form of literary criticism.

• Caecilius StatiusNarrower topic: Ancient critics preserve judgments that partly define Caecilius's reputation today.

• Cyril ConnollyNarrower topic: Connolly’s essays and reviews belong to the practice of judging and interpreting literature.

• François de MalherbeNarrower topic: His authority grew through judgments that prescribed standards for other poets.

• Matija ČopNarrower topic: His critical judgments helped define the artistic standards he wanted Slovenian poetry to meet.

• Yuan ZhenNarrower topic: Debates over authorship, autobiography, and moral judgment shape readings of Yuan Zhen’s tale.

• Zadie SmithNarrower topic: Smith’s essays use criticism to connect particular works with questions about taste and society.

• Friedrich GundolfNarrower topic: Gundolf’s studies belong to criticism while also reshaping how literary history could be written.

• George SaintsburyNarrower topic: Saintsbury combined judgments of individual writers with accounts of literary development.

• Helen VendlerNarrower topic: Vendler’s close readings form a distinctive practice within literary criticism.

• History of literatureNarrower topic: Literary history draws on criticism to describe works and explain their significance.

• S. T. JoshiNarrower topic: Joshi’s essays and monographs use criticism to assess writers and define literary traditions.