Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
Assumes that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times, this work reconceives literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.
"Simply overpowering in the originality of its main concepts, and dazzling in the brilliance of its applications of themHere is a book fundamental enough to be entitled Principia Critica."--Commonweal "An attempt to give a synoptic view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism ... the book is continuously informed by original and incisive thought, by fine perception, and by striking observations upon literature in general and upon particular works."--Modern Language Review "Does literary criticism need a conceptual universe of its own? Professor Frye has written a brilliantly suggestive and encyclopedically erudite book to prove that it does; and he has done his impressive best to provide a framework for this universe. His book is a signal achievement; it is tight, hard, paradoxical, and genuinely witty... [Professor Frye] is the most exciting critic around; I do not think he is capable of writing a page which does not offer some sort of intellectual reward."--Hudson Review "This is a brilliant but bristling book, an important though thoroughly controversial attempt to establish order in a disorderly field... Mr. Frye has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature... It would be hopeless to attempt a brief summary of Mr. Frye's dazzlingly counterpointed classifications."--The Nation
Northrop Frye was University Professor in the University of Toronto and Professor of English in Victoria College, University of Toronto. His books include Fearful Symmetry: A Study Of William Blake (Princeton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691069999 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691069999 |
| Title | Anatomy of Criticism |
| Author | Northrop Frye |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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