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Literary Criticism

Literary criticism is the scholarly critical practice of interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating literary texts.

16.3K

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753.9K

Citations

14.7K

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1.6K

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Publications

16.3K

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Deborah Linderman, Julia Kristeva, Léon S. Roudiez · SubStance · 1984 · 7.1K citations · Full text

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Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Edward Proffitt, Stanley Fish · Journal of Aesthetic Education · 1983 · 3.6K citations

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Testimony: crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 3.4K citations

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The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

Charles Tilly, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White · The American Historical Review · 1988 · 3.3K citations

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Imre Lakatos and Musgrave Alan (eds.). <i><b>Criticism and the growth of knowledge</b></i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 282 pp. np.

Hugh Lehman · Philosophy of Science · 1972 · 3K citations

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Authors

14.7K

  1. RW
    René Wellek

    University of Michigan, United States

    24 publications · 1.7K citations

    19

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  2. TE
    Terry Eagleton

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 5K citations

    17

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  3. SF
    Stanley Fish

    Duke University, United States

    18 publications · 5.8K citations

    16

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  4. JM
    Jerome McGann

    University of Virginia, United States

    15 publications · 1.6K citations

    15

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  5. GH
    Geoffrey H. Hartman

    Yale University, United States

    20 publications · 1.6K citations

    15

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Institutions

1.6K

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    24 h-index

    45 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    24 h-index

    46 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    22 h-index

    38 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    42 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    20 h-index

    43 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    20 h-index

    43 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    19 h-index

    30 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    19 h-index

    33 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2.1K publications · 131.2K citations

    150

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  2. The Modern Language Review

    507 publications · 27.6K citations

    80

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  3. American Literature

    443 publications · 20.9K citations

    64

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  4. World Literature Today

    WLT · 210 publications · 13.5K citations

    59

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  5. Shakespeare Quarterly

    335 publications · 12.9K citations

    57

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See also

Literary Criticism

Core Methods

Theoretical Frameworks

Evaluation Criteria

Historical Schools

Interpretive Objects