ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oxford English Dictionary, Emily Dickinson

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

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Specialized meaning, it allows us to talk and have points of difference. Descriptive not prescriptive, describe it- not tell it: criticism. Being critical and criticizing something seen as negative. Often defined as finding fault, pulling to pieces . Criticism is the overall term for studies concerned with defining, classifying, analyzing and interpreting works of literature. (abrams 70) A discipline or organized body of knowledge that. Investigates and explains an object or study (i. e. literature) Uses evidence from literary works to support general claims. In the sense of general principles, together with a set of terms, distinctions, and categories, to be applied to identifying and analysing works of literature (abrams 70) Concerns itself with the discussion of particular works and writers . In an applied critique, the theoretical principles controlling the analysis, interprections- . The setting of a work of fictions establishes its historial, geographical and physical location ]