English noun: literary criticism | |||
1. | literary criticism (communication) a written evaluation of a work of literature | ||
Synonyms | criticism | ||
Broader (hypernym) | piece of writing, writing, written material | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | analysis, critical review, critique, explication de texte, new criticism, review, review article, textual criticism | ||
2. | literary criticism (cognition) the informed analysis and evaluation of literature | ||
Synonyms | lit crit | ||
Broader (hypernym) | literary study | ||