Entertainment / Literature / Valorization: In literary criticism, the privileging of one key aspect of a literary text or one particular process as the focus of literary analysis. New Critics, for instance, valorize the text itself, the words on the page as an independent literary artifact and de-emphasize biographical details about the author's life. Freudian critics valorize the unconscious mind. Textual critics valorize the process of editing and creating a 'best text' of a literary work. Deconstructionists valorize language as a free-floating collection of signs, etc.
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