Abstract

NADAL SUAU, Josep Maria. The role of journalistic criticism. Valenciana [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.26, pp.231-254.  Epub Dec 22, 2020. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.vi26.541.

This paper reflects on immediate and general criticism of newspaper supplements, with the aim of revealing some of the different limits, functions and duties of the literary critic, among others, the place from which it is written, the identification of the public or its journalistic function. To do this, emphasis is placed on a series of conditioning factors that weigh on the critic, especially the meaning and possibilities of his own criticism, framed in a chronic financial crisis and a model for the written press. The assumption of intellectual risk and the acceptance of a primary responsibility by the critic goes through redefining the panorama of the contemporary.

Keywords : Literary criticism; Literary theory; Press; Contemporary panorama; responsibility.