Literary critic

Literary critic is a person who is doing literary criticism and other related scholarly activities in the literary society. The critic is usually trained in universities and other educational institutions except some creative writers. Even the creative writers are generally from universities and their literary departments. In the twentieth century, a small number of critics have newly emerged from America as well as from the British Isles. However, recently, Commonwealth literature and critics are again rapidly increasing in number and in their activities in the literary and critical scenes of the 21th Century. (Jong-Hyuk Nah, Sogang Univ.) A variety of literary critics have appeared and disappeared in the academic world of literature...