THE TERMS KILLERS AND THE DEFINITIONS SEEKERS. AMATEUR ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM Cover Image

ZABÓJCY POJĘĆ I TROPICIELE DEFINICJI. PRAKTYKI TEORETYCZNOLITERACKIE W INTERNECIE NA PRZYKŁADZIE POLSKICH PORTALI KRYMINALNYCH
THE TERMS KILLERS AND THE DEFINITIONS SEEKERS. AMATEUR ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM

Author(s): Justyna Tuszyńska
Subject(s): Fiction, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: literary criticism; online criticism; crime fiction; interpretive communities;

Summary/Abstract: The main theme of this paper is the problem of defining the crime fiction (detective story, hardboiled fiction, thriller) by the non-professional literary critics in the Internet interpretive communities. If the literary or film critics are also official experts and possess academic authority, based on study and experience, and their words are not merely ‘individuals’ opinions but they are supported by the institutional authority, the online critics are ‘unofficial experts’ (or non-specialists), and their opinions are strictly individual. Anyway they try to imitate the official, institutional criticism online.

  • Issue Year: 32/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 191-206
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish