The development of trends in literary criticism: A systematic review using bibliometric analysis.

Autor: Abimubarok, Achmad, Solihati, Nani, Mulyono, Herri, Hikmat, Ade, Suryoputro, Gunawan, Zamahsari, Awang, Isha
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2024, Vol. 3148 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p
Abstrakt: Research in the field of literary criticism has been widely published in WOS-indexed journals. However, the popularity of literary criticism as an area of scholarly inquiry creates challenges for researchers wishing to identify new topics for original research. This study examines the development of trends in research relating to literary criticism in the period 2012–2021, using bibliometric analysis to conduct a systematic review of the field. We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses framework to select articles that met the criteria. We also employed VOSviewer to help visualize the relationship between keyword "co-occurrences" according to cluster, overlay, and density. The results demonstrated that novels were the most widely critiqued literary works in the last 10 years. As complex literary works, novels contain complex depictions of characters, backgrounds, and conflicts and thus represent rich texts for literary analysis. In addition, novels are dynamic in their depiction of extrinsic elements, such as politics, culture, and religion. This study found that literary critics were most concerned with the topic of character in novels. Although character is an intrinsic element of the novel, the co-occurrence of the keywords "character" and "novel" was consistently close. Moreover, this research identified that the study of female characterization in novels constitutes a recent trend in literary criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index