literary critic
Prose and verse evaluator
A literary critic is someone who analyzes, interprets, and evaluates works of literature.
Critics may work as academics publishing scholarly analysis, as journalists reviewing new books, or as cultural commentators examining literature's broader significance.
The literary critic argued that the novel's fragmented structure reflected postwar disillusionment.
The term can carry dismissive overtones when contrasted with creative writers themselves.
- reviewerOne who assesses work
- bookBound written work
- evaluatorOne who assesses merit
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- close readingDetailed textual analysis
close reader · structuralism · New Criticism · canon · required reading · deconstruction · psychoanalysis · interpreter · Marxism · formalism · historicism · cultural commentary · feminism · analyst · semiotics · opinion · New Yorker · judgment
- criticscritics, criticizer, criticizers, faultfinder, faultfinders
- evaluatorsevaluator, assessor, appraiser, reviewer, rater
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- humanities careershistorian, philosopher, linguist, archaeologist, anthropologist
- literatiauthor, writer, poet, novelist, essayist
- publishing jobseditor, publisher, writer, author, editor-in-chief
literary criticauthor
Creator of written works
novelist · writer · creative writer · poet · playwright
literary criticphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
general reader · lay reader · beach reader · anti-intellectual · book lover
literary criticeditor
One who revises text
literary agent · book editor · publisher · writing coach · mentor
critic, literary, literate, illiterate, illiteracy, alliteration, alliterate