{"id":11565,"count":30,"description":"Welcome to our literary criticism section, where we gather interviews with the finest scholars of English literature and letters,\u00a0from the eminent Yale Professor Harold Bloom<\/a> to the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the defining critical text\u00a0Renaissance Self-Fashioning<\/em>,\u00a0Stephen Greenblatt<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIf you're new to an era and want a big-picture historical view, check out our interviews on Adam and Eve<\/a>, the Victorian essay<\/a>, Victorian literature<\/a>, and modernism<\/a>, to name a few. After a specific author? Look no further\u2014we have interviews with the foremost experts on Virginia Woolf<\/a>, Oscar Wilde<\/a>, D H Lawrence<\/a> and Jane Austen<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWhether it's a fresh look at a literary genre you already know well or a granular view of an author completely new to you, Five Books has expert recommendations to help you read more, and read smarter.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/literary-criticism\/","name":"Literary Criticism","slug":"literary-criticism","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11565"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11565"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}