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 | ||