As I pursued advanced literary studies and learned the skill of reading Spenser and Wordsworth and Emerson, I would hear myself numbered among the culturally disadvantaged.
文学批评究竟是从文学理论中分野出来的独立一支,或者是植于具体的文学及其批判?这还颇有争议。例如,《约翰霍普金斯大学文学思想和批评指南》(Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary thinking and Criticism)描述的文学理论和文学批评之间就没有区别,而且几乎都是使用两个术语来描述相同的概念。一些评论家认为文学批评是文学理论的实践,因为批评总是直接处理文学作品,而理论可能更为一般而抽象。
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Literary criticism 文学批评
(重定向自Literary study)
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists.