Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (1971, Trade Paperback)

Princeton University Press

0691012989

9780691012988

786855

Anatomy of Criticism

383 Pages

English

1971

General

Literary Criticism

Northrop Frye

Trade Paperback

1 in

15.9 Oz

8.5 in

5.5 in

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21

"A brilliant but bristling book. . . . [Mr. Frye] has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature." -- The Nation, "A brilliant but bristling book. . . . [Mr. Frye] has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature."-- The Nation, A brilliant but bristling book. . . . [Mr. Frye] has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature.

801.95

Striking out at the conception of criticism as mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this work on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, Frye reconceives literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.