practical criticism

Examples (10)

• The university's English literature course includes a module on practical criticism.
• For our final paper, we were asked to write a piece of practical criticism on a modernist poem.
• Learning practical criticism helps students focus on the text itself, rather than the author's biography.
• The students spent the seminar engaged in the practical criticism of a short story.
• The method of practical criticism was influential in the development of New Criticism.
• The professor guided the class through an exercise in practical criticism, analyzing a Shakespearean sonnet line by line.
• I found practical criticism to be one of the most challenging yet rewarding parts of my degree.
• A good essay on practical criticism must provide detailed textual evidence for its claims.
• Practical criticism involves a close reading of a text, divorced from external historical information.
• Through practical criticism, she uncovered layers of meaning in the poem that were not immediately obvious.