In still another direction: the editor of a searing (self-published) magazine of media criticism, at work on a critical study on the history of advertising.
Alfred Kazin made his name as a literary critic with "On Native Ground," a pathbreaking critical study of American literature.
But critical study need not entail rationalization of monstrous policies.
Metamathematics, for example, is "the critical study of the nature of mathematical systems," and metapsychology is "the critical study of psychology as a discipline".
There, she was a founding member of the group for the critical study of colonial discourse.
This reminded me of Mark Van Doren's chapter on "Hamlet" from his critical study on Shakespeare.
(No wonder one Norwegian critical study of Undset bears the title "Giving Love a Language").
"Authentic Christian faith is not afraid of scholarship or the critical study of the Scriptures".
It is not a biography so much as a detailed critical study.
His major work, "Crabgrass Frontier" (Oxford, 1985), a largely critical study of suburbia, won the Bancroft Prize.
· Paul Clements is the author of a critical study of Jan Morris published by the University of Wales Press.
