Abstract
Literary criticism is a topic rarely explored in the Communication field, although it occupied a prominent role in the journalistic culture in a period in which literature also enjoyed great prestige in society. This article aims to analyze literary criticism in conjunction with the journalistic activity in Brazil, in three moments: what we call the “romanticism matrix”; the consolidation at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; the invention of what was known as “Footer criticism” in the first half of last century. In methodological terms, the concept of discourse networks, by Kittler, helps to understand the origins of criticism in Romanticism and on how newspapers value certain types of textual articulation in different periods. The aim is to shed light on a process that has not yet been studied, especially the cleavage observed between criticism and report, which in the digital media environment undergoes new reconfigurations.
Keywords
literary criticism; footer criticism; José Veríssimo; Romanticism; Journalism History