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But I think we can do it, by listening to proper criticism and making changes where change is necessary.
Goodness knows, even with the best efforts of the Guardian Review, there is precious little space devoted to proper criticism of children's books, so to throw away 2,000 words on not-very-good books seems... well, quite barmy.
Indeed, given the form's uniquely high production values, and the opportunity for finding life-enhancing beauty in every little physical and conceptual detail arrayed both on the stage and below it in the orchestra pit, we should be straining every sinew in trying to defend it, and its proper criticism.
He holds as integral to the business of proper criticism – and while he's talking about film this could certainly apply across all the arts – that its practitioners should be considered in their verdicts, be prepared to accept personal attribution, and should respect the production exigencies of their chosen art form.
Without proper criticism and judgment, living in real community would become impossible.
Proper criticism should embrace that discourse, not reject it; and yet Stothard seems to be claiming the opposite.
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The cognitive dissonance here should be obvious: On the one hand, he seems to be arguing that popular works aren't literature, let alone the province of proper literary criticism; yet on the other, he's lamenting the inability of literary criticism to dictate popular taste.
(This is why a great deal of online reviewing by readers isn't criticism proper).
That future is the main and proper subject of criticism; it's why film festivals remain crucial and indispensable experiences.
The proper focus of criticism should be these military actions, not Israel's maintaining a presence while it waits for the Palestinians to negotiate a compromise for peace.
Admittedly, the technical advances in textual bibliography mentioned below are not such as would sooner or later occur to any reflective and intelligent person; but bibliography, like paleography, is ancillary to textual criticism proper, and Housman's words are strictly true.
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