Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye.
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Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples.
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Northrop Frye, in full Herman Northrop Frye, (born July 14, 1912, Sherbrooke, Que., Can.—died Jan. 23, 1991, Toronto, Ont.), Canadian educator and literary critic who wrote much on Canadian literature and culture and became best known as one of the most important literary theorists of the 20th century.
This volume, the twenty-second in the acclaimed Collected Works of Northrop Frye series, presents Frye's most influential work,Anatomy of Criticism(1957).
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Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the relations among the text, the reader.
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Northrop Frye wrote Anatomy of Criticism, which consists of four interrelated essays, to explore the nature of literature and how it functions as an art form. His ultimate objective is to direct.
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All the essays deal with criticism, but by criticism I mean the whole work of scholarship and taste concerned with literature which is a part of what is variously called liberal education, culture, or the study of the humanities. I start from the principle that criticism is not simply a part of this larger activity, but an essential part of it.
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) CL: Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: A Collection of Review Essays (1978) CP: The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism (1971) EI: The Educated Imagination (1963) FI: Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology (1963) FS: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William.
Anatomy of Criticism. Frye 1957 is the most comprehensive statement of Frye’s ideas about literature and is a must-read for every Frye scholar. Frye begins by defending the need for a systematic literary criticism that does not rest on “taste” or value judgements or borrow its methodology from other disciplines or extraliterary concerns. The first of Frye’s four essays divides.
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The essays that form the heart of Anatomy of Criticism—dealing in turn with historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical criticism—were reworked from articles appearing in literary and.