Literary criticism goes beyond summarizing a text.
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Literary criticism is the term given to studies that define, classify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literature.
There are many types of literary criticism: some examples include historical criticism, textual criticism, feminist criticism, and formalist criticism.
Literary criticism may examine a particular literary work or it may look at an author's writings as a whole.
Many of the resources you find in our literature databases will fall under the heading of 'literary criticism.' See below for these databases.
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