Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 14 compound words that contain criticism. The most common are listed below. Open criticism in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- literary criticismThe study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
- constructive criticismAny type of criticism that is intended to provide suggestions for improvement without offending or insulting the recipient.
- self-criticismCriticism of oneself.
- New CriticismA movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic …
- historical criticismThe systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources.
- textual criticismA field of scholarly enquiry dedicated to reconstructing the oldest form(s) of a text that is or are possible to retrieve and to explaining any attested variants.
- source criticismThe critical evaluation of a source of information in terms of intent, date, bias, authenticity and reliability by means of the methodologies of the humanities.
- destructive criticismAny type of criticism that is intended to harm someone, to derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem.
- form criticismA method of biblical criticism that classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and then attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission.
- higher criticismSynonym of historical criticism (“study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources”).
- armchair criticismA comment or criticism made by an armchair critic.
- contextual criticismA form of literary criticism that analyzes the context of the text.
- lower criticismSynonym of textual criticism (“scientific reconstruction of original historical texts”).
- historic criticismArchaic form of historical criticism: The systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources.
Compound words 14
- anticriticismOpposition to critical examination and review.
- ecocriticismThe interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
- hypercriticismExcessive or unfairly harsh criticism.
- countercriticismA criticism offered in response to a criticism by the opposing party.
- neocriticismA philosophy that rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories
- autocriticismSelf-criticism; criticism of what one has done, said or been.
- biocriticismbiographical criticism
- cybercriticismThe critical study of cyberculture.
- geocriticismA form of literary criticism focusing on location and spaces.
- gynocriticismThe historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition.