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

• 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.

• LiteratureCompared with: It is writing about literature rather than the creative works themselves.

• 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.

• English studiesRelated: It provides methods for interpreting the literature central to English studies.

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

• New StatesmanRelated: Its reviews and essays have long treated literature as part of public debate.

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

• DidacticismRelated: Critics debate whether instruction strengthens a work or narrows its artistic possibilities.

• Donald KeeneRelated: Keene’s essays and histories interpreted Japanese writing for audiences unfamiliar with its traditions.

• Julian BarnesRelated: Barnes’s essays bring critical inquiry into conversation with the questions and forms of his fiction.

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

• Nicholas SparksRelated: Critical responses often debate the sentimentality and formula of his fiction.

• Terry EagletonRelated: His work combines close interpretation with arguments about history and ideology.

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

• Wen XuanRelated: Its prefaces and choices reveal early Chinese judgments about literary value.

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

• Conrad BlackRelated: Black’s books and journalism continued to shape his public profile alongside his business and legal history.

• 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.

• Gene TunneyRelated: After boxing, Tunney became known for his interest in literature and served as chairman of the board of the Literary Guild.

• Giosuè CarducciRelated: Carducci’s scholarship and essays shaped judgments about Italian literary history.

• Harold RobbinsRelated: Critical reception helps explain the gap between Robbins’s sales and literary reputation.

• Interpretation (hermeneutics)Related: Literary criticism offers established methods for defending readings of complex works.

• Leopoldo AlasRelated: Alas was a prominent critic whose essays shaped his literary reputation as well as his fiction.

• 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.

• AffectRelated: Affect analysis traces how texts evoke feelings and position readers toward characters or events.

• E. L. JamesRelated: Critics have examined the series' prose, gender politics, and treatment of consent.

• 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.

• Howard JacobsonRelated: Jacobson has worked as a critic as well as a novelist and journalist.

• Ignacio Manuel AltamiranoRelated: His essays and reviews helped define standards for Mexican letters.

• Lêdo IvoRelated: Ivo wrote essays and criticism alongside his poetry and fiction.

• Leon UrisRelated: Critics have debated Uris’s historical simplifications, political perspective, and literary style.

• Literary scienceRelated: Critical practice turns literary questions into arguments about particular works.

• Literature (academic discipline)Related: It is the discipline’s central practice of making reasoned claims about texts.

• Paul HeyseRelated: Heyse’s career included criticism as well as creative writing and translation.

• Paulo CoelhoRelated: Critics have debated the literary merits of Coelho’s accessible, commercially successful fiction.

• Roberto BolañoRelated: Critics have debated how his fiction represents violence without turning it into spectacle.

• Rupi KaurRelated: Critical responses to Kaur often debate simplicity, originality, accessibility, and literary merit.

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

• Victor-Joseph Étienne de JouyRelated: De Jouy’s criticism placed him in debates over contemporary literature and theater.