He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

Some say that literary criticism is a subset of literary theory.

His work in this specific field ( based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history ) is connected to broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism.

These can include shi ( 史, historical works ), zi ( 子, philosophical works belonging to schools of thought other than the Confucian, but also works of agriculture, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, divination, art criticism, and all sorts of miscellaneous writings ) and ji ( 集, literary works ) as well as jing.

As a term, critical theory has two meanings with different origins and histories: the first originated in sociology and the second originated in literary criticism, whereby it is used and applied as an umbrella term that can describe a theory founded upon critique ; thus, the theorist Max Horkheimer described a theory as critical in so far as it seeks " to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them.

The second meaning of critical theory is the theory used in literary criticism and in the analysis and understanding of literature.

This version of " critical " theory derives from the notion of literary criticism as establishing and enhancing the understanding and evaluation of literature in the search for truth.

Thus literary criticism became highly theoretical and some of those practicing it began referring to the theoretical dimension of their work as " critical theory "-a philosophically inspired theory of literary criticism.

With the expansion of the mass media and mass / popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the blending of social and cultural criticism and literary criticism, the methods of both kinds of critical theory sometimes intertwined in the analysis of phenomena of popular culture, as in the emerging field of cultural studies, in which concepts deriving from Marxian theory, post-structuralism, semiology, psychoanalysis and feminist theory would be found in the same interpretive work.

Particularly problematic are the attempts to give neat introductions to deconstruction by people trained in literary criticism who sometimes have little or no expertise in the relevant areas of philosophy that Derrida is working in relation to.

This group came to be known as the Yale school and was especially influential in literary criticism.

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism.

Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic Principle ".

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.

The label of formula fiction is used in literary criticism as a mild pejorative to imply lack of originality.

More examples of the yat umlaut in the literary language are:

More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declinedhe became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

More concerned with the literary nature of Orwell ’ s work, he sought explanations for Orwell's character and treated his first-person writings as autobiographical.

These literary battles convinced More, who valued structure, tradition, and order in society above all else, that Lutheranism and the Protestant Reformation in general were dangerous, not only to the Catholic faith but to the stability of society as a whole.

More recently, Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature ( 1995 ).

More recently, Finnegans Wake has become an increasingly accepted part of the critical literary canon, although detractors still remain.

At Hampton Court, Brown encountered Hannah More in 1782 and described his " grammatical " manner in her literary terms: "' Now there said he, pointing his finger, ' I make a comma, and there ' pointing to another spot, ' where a more decided turn is proper, I make a colon ; at another part, where an interruption is desirable to break the view, a parenthesis ; now a full stop, and then I begin another subject '".

More recently the term has proved useful to literary studies that are emphasizing the continuity of English literature in the half century 1575 – 1625.

More specifically, in his essay Frontiers of Writing, Heaney creates an image of five towers forming a quincunx pattern within Ireland, one tower for each of the five provinces, each having literary significance.

Dyce was closely connected with several literary societies, and undertook the publication of Kempe's Nine Days ' Wonder for the Camden Society ; and the old plays of Timon of Athens and Sir Thomas More were published by him for the Shakespeare Society.

New Humanism or neohumanism were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More.

Politician and author Wilton G. S. Sankawulo published many collections of poems and stories which later became praised anthologies on Liberian folklore and wider African literary tradition entitled, More Modern African stories.

Clarke helped her publish her first literary review in the Western Messenger in June: criticisms of recent biographies on George Crabbe and Hannah More.

More than munitions work held his interest ; he contributed to several literary journals during this period as well.

Although she continued to enjoy a brilliant literary career, More did not write for the stage after her paper war with Cowley.

Within a short time More had associated herself with London's literary elite, including Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Edmund Burke.

Johnson thought her superior to his other female literary friends, Elizabeth Carter, Hannah More, and Frances Burney.

" More forgiving literary critics usually cite Mission Earth as Hubbard's best work of the later years of his life.

More explicitly, in refusing to judge tropes as entities unto themselves, Longinus promotes the appreciation of literary devices as they relate to passages as a whole.

More obscure literary references abound, perhaps in keeping with the common theme of being " well-read ".

More so than the Deftones, many of Team Sleep's themes and lyrics are fantastical and imaginative in nature, drawing from such literary sources as Edgar Allan Poe and historical events like the Jonestown Massacre.

As an alternative to this more literary approach for these two grades, entirely new texts were published with shorter, simpler readings with the titles of Parades and More Parades for the seventh grade and Panoramas and More Panoramas for the eighth grade.

More modern critics have pointed out that all the proposed rearrangements assume Propertius ' original poetry adhered strictly to the classical literary principles as set down by Aristotle, and so the apparent jumble is a result of manuscript corruptions.