ENGL 201: Critical Reading: Find Articles

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"Criticism still embraces exegesis, interpretation, and evaluation, as it has traditionally done, but today it often encroaches upon the territory of " theory, " whether we characterize theory as discussion and debates about basic definitions, as the search for necessary and sufficient foundations for evaluating critical practice, or as the self-reflexive process of making explicit underlying social, historical, or ideological interests and presuppositions. The semantic boundaries between " theory " and " criticism " blur. We see the terms often used interchangeably. Frequently, however, they occur together to signal at once their overlapping as well as their divergent possible meanings..."

"Preface." The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2012, http://0-litguide.press.jhu.edu.books.redlands.edu/preface.html. Accessed 25 Oct. 2016.