literary criticism

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Humane, grounded and respectful of its audience, “Good Bones” is literary criticism at its best.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Along with poetry and literary criticism, he teaches part-time at the University of Florida.

From BBC • May 21, 2024

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography," The New York Times wrote in a review.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023

She read constantly and offered, in letters to Etty mostly, her literary criticism.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman