Editing Literary criticism (section)

=== Current state ===
Today, approaches based in [[literary theory]] and [[continental philosophy]] largely coexist in university literature departments, while conventional methods, some informed by the [[New Critics]], also remain active. Disagreements over the goals and methods of literary criticism, which characterized both sides taken by critics during the "rise" of theory, have declined.

Some critics work largely with theoretical texts, while others read traditional literature; interest in the literary [[Western canon|canon]] is still great, but many critics are also interested in nontraditional texts and [[Women's writing in English|women's literature]], as elaborated on by certain academic journals such as ''Contemporary Women's Writing'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/cww|title=Contemporary Women's Writing {{!}} Oxford Academic|website=OUP Academic|language=en|access-date=1 August 2019|archive-date=7 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807221421/https://academic.oup.com/cww|url-status=live}}</ref> while some critics influenced by [[cultural studies]] read popular texts like comic books or [[Pulp magazine|pulp]]/[[genre fiction]]. [[Ecocriticism|Ecocritics]] have drawn connections between literature and the natural sciences. [[Darwinian literary studies]] studies literature in the context of [[evolutionary]] influences on human nature. And [[postcritique]] has sought to develop new ways of reading and responding to literary texts that go beyond the interpretive methods of [[critique]]. Many literary critics also work in [[film criticism]] or [[media studies]].