id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7429 Literary criticism - Wikipedia .html text/html 2492 306 51 Find sources: "Literary criticism" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) E. Michael Jones, for example, argues in his Degenerate Moderns that Stanley Fish was influenced by his own adulterous affairs to reject classic literature that condemned adultery.[6] Jürgen Habermas in Erkenntnis und Interesse [1968] (Knowledge and Human Interests), described literary critical theory in literary studies as a form of hermeneutics: knowledge via interpretation to understand the meaning of human texts and symbolic expressions—including the interpretation of texts which themselves interpret other texts. Related to other forms of literary criticism, the history of the book is a field of interdisciplinary inquiry drawing on the methods of bibliography, cultural history, history of literature, and media theory. Today, approaches based in literary theory and continental philosophy largely coexist in university literature departments, while conventional methods, some informed by the New Critics, also remain active. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7429.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7429.txt