litcrit

It was for the Lost Girls – I guess that’s what critics call transgressive or not – I’ve never been able to figure that out word litcrit-wise.

Alan Moore 2007

It was for the Lost Girls – I guess that’s what critics call transgressive or not – I’ve never been able to figure that out word litcrit-wise.

Germs 2007

Well, it seems to me that the litcrit blogosphere is full of such.

Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale 2009

I actually agree with the general proposition that reading fiction should be "enjoyable," certainly that it should be "pleasurable," although usually the assertion of enjoyment or entertainment as primary criteria for judging the value of works of fiction is a kind of defensive gesture meant to ward off the "snobs and professors" who want to take the pleasure out of reading for those not "indoctrinated" into the protocols of litcrit.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

One thing that I keep circling back to, which IS problematic in the litcrit blogosphere, and to which some of criticisms of the blogosphere do have some merit, is that many critics and reviewers made bold assertions and sweeping generalizations with nothing to back them up.

Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale 2009

Intertextuality is a bit of a high-risk word to throw in here because in the post-modernist world of litcrit it's been severely touted around and the meaning now probably many stages removed from the original.

45 entries from March 2008 2008

Intertextuality is a bit of a high-risk word to throw in here because in the post-modernist world of litcrit it's been severely touted around and the meaning now probably many stages removed from the original.

Ondaatje divides and rules 2008

Intertextuality is a bit of a high-risk word to throw in here because in the post-modernist world of litcrit it's been severely touted around and the meaning now probably many stages removed from the original.

Ondaatje divides and rules 2008

Heavy weekend reading: Shambleau ... and Others: the role of the female in the fiction of C.L. Moore, a litcrit essay by Sarah Gamble that was published in 1991's Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. [via Marooned, who points us, once again, to C.L. Moore's "Shambleau" online.]

SF Tidbits for 11/15/08 2008

Heavy weekend reading: Shambleau ... and Others: the role of the female in the fiction of C.L. Moore, a litcrit essay by Sarah Gamble that was published in 1991's Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. [via Marooned, who points us, once again, to C.L. Moore's "Shambleau" online.]

November 2008 2008