The judges' decision, reached in two hours and 16 minutes, came after "a rigorous process of literary criticism", said Stothard, who edits the Times Literary Supplement.
By opening up the process of his criticism, he lets a little air into his appraisal of the book, of the quality and potential degeneration of Proulx's prose, and of her place in the canon of contemporary literature.
Wallace said David Cameron still wanted the report to be published this year and hoped the process of putting criticism to people mentioned in the report would take a matter of weeks rather than months.
The self-reflective process of literary criticism known as "deconstructing the text" becomes a diabolical game of murder in DOMINANCE (Simon & Schuster, $25), an academic mystery by Will Lavender that gleefully illustrates the dangers of losing yourself in a book.
Such a history should describe the development of "[t]he process of interpretation, criticism, and appreciation" or trace the development of works in small and large groups before tying it to universal literature.
The PERCH case definition was refined through an iterative process of presentation, criticism, and response during in-person meetings and teleconferences, first with a globally representative group of pneumonia experts, the Pneumonia Methods Working Group PMWGG) [ 21], and later with the investigators from the 7 sites.
IT ALL sounds alarmingly like the process of self-criticism that kept Chairman Mao's China on the ideological tracks.
But this very process of self-criticism is the precondition for the second wind, the grubbier, less illusioned effort that often enough leads to some acceptable outcome.
Moreover, the process of self-criticism is part of the ego controls (Freud called it the superego) and acts as an internal and often unconscious conscience that influences moral values.
