Critics should not aggrandize their critical activity

Evidence

In this situation the function of literary criticism grows clear. Even if ours is a critical age, it does not seem to me very becoming in critics to exalt their activity to the level of literary creation, as is loosely done in France today. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 10009

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Effective criticism shapes culture rather than merely describing it — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2688

Related

• Effective criticism shapes culture rather than merely describing it (similarity 0.90)
• Genre criticism becomes a creative enterprise when freed from canonical rigidities (similarity 0.80)
• Critics functioned as status-granting institutions that countered commercial valuation of art (similarity 0.79)
• Literary criticism’s relevance varies with the historical and ideological moment (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Effective criticism shapes culture rather than merely describing it #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2688