Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature to understand works and judge their quality. It involves defining literature, classifying works, determining literature's purpose, and studying its history. There are several types of criticism like textual analysis of versions, practical criticism of individual works, and biographical criticism of authors' lives and writings. Broadly, criticism is formal and concerned with defining literature and systems, or moral and focused on works' contents and relation to values.

1. LITERARY
CRITICISM
ROY S. CAPANGPANGAN
Discussant

2. LITERARY CRITICISM
 is the study, evaluation, and
interpretation of Literature.
 the art of understanding and explaining
literature, and judging it.
 It includes defining the term literature;
describing and classifying the various
kinds of literary works; determining the
purpose of literature; and studying
literary history.

3. KINDS OF LITERARY CRITICISM
1. TEXTUAL CRITICISM—involves close
attention to the wording and punctuation
of various versions of literary work in
order to establish a text as close as
possible to the one that the author
intended.
2. PRACTICAL CRITICISM—involves also
a close study of an individual work but
its purpose is to grasp the work’s
essential and unique quality.
3. BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM—
examines the relation between a writer’s
life and work.

4. BROAD CATEGORIES OF CRITICAL
THEORY
A. FORMAL CRITICISM—is concerned with such
matters as defining literature and adopting
criteria for judging literary quality. It also sets
up systems of classification.
For example: the Theory of Kinds classifies
literary works according to their form—such as
drama, epic, lyric, novel, or short story;
according to school or movements—Romantic,
Neoclassic, or Naturalistic.
A. MORAL CRITICISM—is concerned with the
content of a literary work and its relation to
moral, ethical, and social values. It may vary
according to critic’s own values.

5. REFERENCES
 New Standard Encyclopedia, Vol. 10
 www.wikipedia.org/literarycriticism