Meta-Criticism and Contemporary Arabic Literary Criticism

This article investigates meta-criticism, a field that has yet to settle on a definitive understanding, let alone the concept it denotes. When discussing "applied meta-criticism," the mind tends to turn towards forms of approaches lacking a clear identity, whose banner oscillates between criticism, critique, and literary ideas. Undoubtedly, this hesitation and ambiguity can be attributed to the subject of "meta-criticism" itself, that is, to the fundamental and central point: criticism, which is difficult to define, delimit, and categorise both epistemologically and methodologically. Consequently, meta-criticism is even more complex.