TY - JOUR TI - The Terms Killers and the Definitions Seekers. Amateur Online Literary Criticism AU - Tuszyńska, Justyna TI - The Terms Killers and the Definitions Seekers. Amateur Online Literary Criticism AB - The main theme of this paper is the problem of defining the crime fiction (detective story, hardboiled fiction, thriller) by the non-professional literary critics in the Internet interpretive communities. If the literary or film critics are also official experts and possess academic authority, based on study and experience, and their words are not merely ‘individuals’ opinions but they are supported by the institutional authority, the online critics are ‘unoffi cial experts’ (or non-specialists), and their opinions are strictly individual. Anyway they try to imitate the offi cial, institutional criticism online. VL - 2017 IS - Issue 2 (32) PY - 2017 SN - 1895-975X C1 - 2084-3860 SP - 191 EP - 206 DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.17.013.7361 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/zabojcy-pojec-i-tropiciele-definicji-praktyki-teoretycznoliterackie-w-internecie-na-przykladzie-portali-kryminalnych KW - literary criticism KW - online criticism KW - crime fiction KW - interpretive communities