" Structuralist and poststructuralist psychoanalytic and Marxist theories " in Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: From Formalism to Poststructuralism ( Vol 8 ).

Barthes ' rebuttal in Criticism and Truth ( 1966 ) accused the old, bourgeois criticism of a lack of concern with the finer points of language and of selective ignorance towards challenging theories, such as Marxism.

* Criticism of 9 / 11 conspiracy theories

It stands in total opposition to the theories of formalism and the New Criticism, in which the reader's role in re-creating literary works is ignored.

Criticism of Lysenko was denounced as ' bourgeois ' or ' fascist ', and analogous ' non-bourgeois ' theories also flourished in other fields in the Soviet academy at this time ( see Japhetic theory ; socialist realism ).

* Northrop Frye, in his highly influential Anatomy of Criticism, formulated a theories of cycles influenced by Giambattista Vico and Oswald Spengler, and later commented: " I noticed that the acceptance of theories of recurrence seemed to accompany either neurotic obsession, as in Nietzsche, or projected forms of self-interrogation of the most dubious kind, as in Yeats ' Vision.

" It refers to a criticism that constructs " a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories " ( quoted by Groden and Kreiswurth from " Toward a Feminist Poetics ," New Feminist Criticism, 131 ).

* Criticism of the modern world and of " neospiritualism ": East and West, The Crisis of the Modern World, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power, Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion, The Spiritist Fallacy and The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times, the latter book being often considered as his masterpiece as an explanation of the modern world from the traditional perspective.

This change produced a variety of items such as blue broadswords, and orange katanas, which caused upset with traditional players who claimed that the unrealistically colored weapons detracted from the authenticity of Ultima Online ( see: Criticism ).

Grossman also founded the Grossman Wellness Center, a clinic employing ( among other methods ) Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which has been shown by systematic reviews to have no better effect than insertion of needles in placebo points ( see Criticism of traditional Chinese medicine theory ).

Despite the formal innovations of Modernism as exemplified in the work of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and the widespread appearance of free verse in the early decades of the 20th century, many poets chose to continue working predominantly in traditional forms, such as those poets in America sometimes associated with the New Criticism, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Anthony Hecht, and Richard Wilbur.

Criticism of horse racing and its practices runs a wide gamut, however ; while some may consider even fairly drastic discipline of horses non-abusive, others may consider abuse to be anything done against the will of the animal in question.

Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices.

" Barthes himself stated that the difference between his theory and New Criticism comes in the practices of " deciphering " and " disentangling.

Criticism of religion is criticism of the concepts, doctrines, validity, and / or practices of religion, including associated political and social implications.

The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man.

Criticism of Holocaust denial criticizes claims to the effect that the genocide of Jews during World War II in the Holocaust did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by current scholarship.

Criticism of the specific claims made in the report helped draw attention away from the ghetto and toward white researchers.

* Criticism of high-tech shortage claims

Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.

Criticism of other officials was allowed during these meetings, for instance, Karl Radek said to Lenin ( criticising his position of supporting peace with the Germans ), " If there were five hundred courageous men in Petrograd, we would put you in prison.

Nevertheless, in his essay, " The New Criticism ," Cleanth Brooks notes that " The New Critic, like the Snark, is a very elusive beast ," meaning that there was no clearly defined " New Critical " school or critical stance.

Criticism focused on the Internet voting, suggesting the possibility of hacking and other subterfuge, though there was no evidence that such hacking occurred.

Criticism was made about this agreement, in which it believed it was to improve a commercial operations and " not for the benefit of the local community Central FM's station manager, Mr Brian Hawkins, said: There is more local content now than there ever was.

As with many older terminologies, there are modern readers who find it objectionable or stereotypical to describe musical ideas in gendered terms ( see Criticism and sonata form ).

Criticism of this model arises from its inability to explain why there is a delay between the onset of referred pain after local pain stimulation.

In her essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness ( 1981 ), Showalter says, " A cultural theory acknowledges that there are important differences between women as writers: class, race nationality, and history are literary determinants as significant as gender.

Criticism of immigration detention focuses on comparisons with prison conditions in which persons are kept though they have never been convicted of a crime, the lack of judicial oversight, and on the lengthy bureaucratic delays that often prevent a person from being released, particularly when there is no evidence that the detainee will present a harm or a burden to society if allowed to remain at large while their situation is examined.

# ‘ Historical Criticism and Literary Interpretation: Is there any Common Ground ?’, in Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder ( ed.

Criticism of injustice and inequality arises, but there is relatively little political tendency in his literary works.

Criticism of religion is complicated by the fact that there exist multiple definitions and concepts of religion in different cultures and languages.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

Criticism of postmodernism are intellectually diverse, including the assertions that postmodernism is meaningless and promotes obscurantism.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

In his Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method, scholar Edwin Black states, " It is the task of criticism not to measure … discourses dogmatically against some parochial standard of rationality but, allowing for the immeasurable wide range of human experience, to see them as they really are.

Criticism is considered rhetorical when it focuses on the way some types of discourse react to situational exigencies – problems or demands – and constraints.

However, the theory of relativity is now considered as a cornerstone of modern physics, see Criticism of relativity theory.

Criticism from Russia, a country held to be in violation of the Convention by the Court in many decisions, is frequent.

Criticism comes most often from politicians, especially when they or an associate of theirs is under investigation for connections to the Mafia.

Ebert is one of the principal critics featured in Gerald Peary's 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

The thought behind Marxist Criticism is that works of literature are mere products of history that can be analysed by looking at the social and material conditions in which they were constructed.

The fierce debate about the film is discussed at length in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

Critics also argue that the empirical evidence shows that " predatory pricing " does not work in practice and is better defeated by a truly free market than by anti-trust laws ( see Criticism of the theory of predatory pricing ).

Criticism for Frye, then, is not a task of evaluation — that is, of rejecting or accepting a literary work — but rather simply of recognizing it for what it is and understanding it in relation to other works within the ' order of words ' ( Cotrupi 4 ).

Criticism, Frye explains, is essentially centripetal when it moves inwardly, towards the structure of a text ; it is centrifugal when it moves outwardly, away from the text and towards society and the outer world.

Criticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of the globalization of capitalism.

After this high point, Quintilian ’ s influence seems to have lessened somewhat, although he is mentioned by the English poet Alexander Pope in his versified “ An Essay on Criticism ”: