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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the interpretation and evaluation of literature and the arts. It exists in a variety of literary forms: dialogues (Plato, John Dryden), verse (Horace, Alexander Pope), letters (John Keats), essays (Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden), and treatises (Philip Sydney, Percy Bysshe Shelley). There are several categories of criticism: theoretical, practical, textual, judicial, biographical, and impressionistic. However, as the American critic M. H. Abrams has pointed out in The Mirror and the Lamp (1953), all criticism, no matter what its form, type, or provenance, emphasizes one of four relationships: the mimetic, the work's connection to reality; the pragmatic, its effect on the audience; the expressive, its connection to the author; and the objective, the work as an independent, self-sufficient creation. From its beginning criticism has concerned philosophers. Plato raised the question of the authenticity of poetic knowledge in the Ion , in which both poet and performer are forced to admit…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
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It was not until the mid-eighteenth century that aesthetics emerged as an autonomous discipline concerned with the study of artistic creativity, aesthetic experience, and the interpretation and evaluation of art. Its definition in treatises, such as Alexander Baumgarten's Aesthetica (Aesthetics, …
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the interpretation and evaluation of literature and the arts. It exists in a variety of literary forms: dialogues (Plato, John Dryden), verse (Horace, Alexander Pope), letters (John Keats), essays (Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden), and treatises (Philip Sydney, Percy Bysshe Shelley). There are several…
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From Key Concepts in Education
To be critical is, in everyday conversation, to be a bit anti-social, to be looking for disagreement, to be hard to please. Yet learning how to criticise is the bedrock foundation of education and one fundamental activity of thinking. It has, what is more, manifold forms. Far from being merely the…
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From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American chemist Anyone who wishes to grow over their lifetime needs criticism. From Design to Discovery Carbanion Stereochemistry and Mechanisms (1955-1972) (p. 45 ) American Chemical Society. Washington, D.C. 1990. English naturalist Whenever I have found ... …
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From The Harvard Dictionary of Music
The elucidation and interpretation, based on the experience of an informed listener, of a work or performance. Its fundamental aim is the illumination of the individual work or performance as heard rather than the discovery of structural or other features common to many works. In this respect it…
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From The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
Verbal description, interpretation and evaluation of music. A book-length study of, say, Beethoven's quartets may be considered a work of criticism, but the term is normally associated with newspaper, magazine and radio journalism, and with the immediate reporting of performances, by professional…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. ARNOLD, Matthew Essays in Criticism (1865). One cannot review a bad book without showing off. AUDEN, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays (1963). …
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From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
I. Meanings of the Term II. History III. Divisions of Criticism The most common meaning of the word criticism is the expression of disapproval on the basis of perceived faults, and historically, in the domain of lit., much crit. has been the evaluation of literary productions. Since the 19th c., …
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From 100 Ideas that Changed Film
Thanks to the arrival of specialist journals and the Internet, the outlets for film criticism have grown and changed beyond recognition across the past century—with critics often determining a film's commercial prospects and the way it is interpreted either as art or entertainment. Notwithstanding…
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From QFinance: The Ultimate Resource
The thought pattern that keeps most people poor: they criticize instead of analyse. Kiyosaki, Robert . Rich Dad, Poor Dad (2000). Criticism is one of the most important tasks a manager has. Barzun, Jacques . Emotional Intelligence (1996). If you have bright plumage, people will take pot shots at…
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