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  • The polemical introduction to Anatomy of Criticism makes a few very good points about the critic's place in literature, and criticism's relation to the art.

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • The only period in the history of academic criticism (which runs roughly from the 1920s to the present) in which "aesthetic judgment" was seen as the "central" goal of criticism was really the period dominated by New Criticism, which was in turn the critical method that solidified academic criticism's place in academe's disciplinary structure.

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • Further, both the looser, more informal structure and the reader-friendly critical language Thirlwell employs seem to me to work to accomplish one of criticism's legitimate tasks, which is to explicate features of literary works that are not necessarily obvious to all readers, that require the critic to call attention to them as evocatively as possible.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • Literature's mirror and criticism's lens reflect back to us in a handily focused and duly intensified image "instance after instance of our inability to project, limit, and control the mainly negentropic quality of all our activities in our environments."

    The State of Criticism 2008

  • Film criticism's "canary in a coal mine" moment wasn't the shift to celeb cult worship, but rather to the simplification of its opinions into "see it/don't see it."

    Roger Ebert on the Death of the Film Critic | /Film 2008

  • This criticism's attachments, I further presumed, were thus stubbornly historicist, reflecting more recent trends in Romantic studies, whereas work on Romanticism and psychoanalysis was more productively dialectical and diacritical.

    Introduction 2008

  • This column is really a second installment to yesterday's ( "How To Not Give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed What He Wants"), where I took a look at two of the criticism's against Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in federal civilian court rather than in a military tribunal.

    Chris Weigant: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed And An Independent Department Of Justice 2009

  • I am a former student and (continuing!) friend of Peter Enns (the prinicple target of Beale's book), and I know that your criticism's of Erosion mirror his own.

    The Last Gasp of Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009

  • I heard the same criticism's of Cameron's Titanic before it came out.

    'King of the world' James Cameron returns with 'Avatar' 2009

  • When we dance together, either literally, or metaphorically, we are not caught up in criticism's fire.

    Dr. Cara Barker: In These Times, Why Not Dance? 2009

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