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What is literary criticism?
Literary criticism includes poetry criticism, novel criticism, prose criticism, drama criticism, film and television criticism and so on. My father and mother are a movie. Film is a comprehensive art created collectively, which integrates screenwriter, director, actor, photography, music, art design, editing, costume, props, makeup, lighting and special effects. Film and television reviews can not only comprehensively comment on many aspects, but also focus on one aspect.

Literary criticism is different from general ideological criticism. The object of ideological criticism is social life and various ideological problems expressed by people in their life and work, with the aim of helping people improve their ideological understanding and distinguish right from wrong; It can be demonstrated through various materials, as long as it is closely related to the point you want to clarify.

The object of literary criticism is literary works (novels, poems, essays, plays, paintings, movies and television, etc.). ); The purpose of comments is to improve reading and appreciation by discussing and evaluating its ideological content, creative style and artistic characteristics. Of course, all kinds of materials can be quoted in comments, but all kinds of materials quoted in comments should be related to literary works, and the materials used in literary criticism basically come from literary works themselves.

In addition, literary criticism is different from the general analysis of works. Of course, from a certain point of view, literary criticism should first be based on the analysis of works, without which there is no comment; The analysis itself naturally includes the evaluation of the work. But there is still a difference between the two. The key point of analyzing the works is to say "this is the case"; The focus of the review is to talk about the works "why" and "is this good?"

Literary criticism should have a general evaluation of the works, and there is a certain argumentation process for your evaluation, but the analysis of the works may not necessarily have a general evaluation of the works.

In addition, when writing literary criticism, you don't need to quote large paragraphs of raw materials, which will crowd out your discussion of using raw materials; Comments should be focused and clear. Don't comment from a big angle. For example, when writing such a grand classic as A Dream of Red Mansions, where do you start to comment? It's hard to write. If you simplify it to "comment on the dialogue between characters in A Dream of Red Mansions" and then reduce it to "comment on the language characteristics of Feng Chili in A Dream of Red Mansions", it will be easier to write.

The viewpoint should be clear-cut, and the viewpoint should be supported by the analysis of conclusive materials. The quoted materials must first come from the work itself, and of course they can also be quoted by others. Material analysis and viewpoint should always be consistent. For works that readers don't know much about, we should explain some related aspects before commenting.

Nowadays, a variety of literary works have been added to the new Chinese teaching materials, and the selected works are basically masterpieces at all times and in all countries. In addition, film and television programs are also quite rich. Students should pick up the pen and choose the literary works they are interested in to write literary criticism. It can not only improve reading and appreciation ability, but also improve written expression ability. The following are some comments on "My Mom and Dad" written by Class 0/0, Grade 3, Middle School Attached to Peking University. Several articles written by them have been shown earlier. Compare the examples before and after, and then talk about the similarities and differences between reading and literary criticism.