English Literature / Unit 2 ENL 0131 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Literary Criticism Is
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The idea
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. It is related to literary theory, which analyses what literature is for and how it works. The exam asks you to comprehend the reasoning in an excerpt of criticism: to follow an argument.
In practice
Argument about literature.
Where people slip
You are tested on the reasoning.
Your place on the trail
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