lit-crit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lit-crit
By shortening
Example Sentences
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I once wrote a term paper for a lit-crit course where I “deconstructed” the MTV program “Pimp My Ride.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2017
But now I’ll hit pause on the armchair lit-crit to simply marvel at how entertaining—if dark—this premiere was.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013
But it also would have been interesting, as a kind of comedy lit-crit, to see a joke spring from seed to tree.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
This esoteric probing, along with Zipperstein’s guru’s dome and beard, gave his students a sense that they’d been spiritually vetted and were now—for two hours Wednesday afternoons, at least––part of a campus lit-crit élite.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2010
When he is being cynical, which is more than half the time, Lentz intends merely to stuff "the most complex and extensive neural simulator ever trained" with prepackaged, fake hermeneutics and suitably foggy lit-crit catchphrases.
From Time Magazine Archive
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