THEORIES/EXAMPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM

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Ferdinand de Saussure

the pioneer of English language criticism, a structuralist.

Book review

published in a newspaper or online

REVIEW

of a dramatic performance

Review of a movie

·        that adapts a famous play or novel

Scholarly discussion

·        of how to interpret the meaning of an author’s work in a chapter, book, or a magazine or journal article.

Overview of a literary work or an author's entire body of work

(often placing the author’s effort in historical context.

Article from a peer-reviewed Literary Journal

·        which a PhD summarizes her dissertation. Such writing is a “never before published” thesis (argument) or insight about the work or author detailed by new research.

A book

that publishes the dissertation (or analysis) of a scholar that analyzes a literary work, or a literary movement, or that compares authors or works