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Anatomy of Criticism
Four Essays
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2001
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A landmark work of literary criticism
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, and society. Using a dazzling array of examples, he argues that understanding "the structure of literature as a total form" also allows us to see the profoundly liberating effect literature can have.
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Northrop Frye (1912–1991) was University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he was also professor of English at Victoria College. His books include Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton). David Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.
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"Brilliant. . . . Frye has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, [and] a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature."—The Nation
"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."—Hudson Review
"Simply overpowering in the originality of its main concepts, and dazzling in the brilliance of its applications of them. Here is a book fundamental enough to be entitled Principia Critica."—Commonweal
"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."—Hudson Review
"Simply overpowering in the originality of its main concepts, and dazzling in the brilliance of its applications of them. Here is a book fundamental enough to be entitled Principia Critica."—Commonweal
"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
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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PREFATORY STATEMENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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POLEMICAL INTRODUCTION
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FIRST ESSAY. Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes
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SECOND ESSAY. Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols
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THIRD ESSAY. Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths
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FOURTH ESSAY. Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres
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Tentative Conclusion
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NOTES
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GLOSSARY
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INDEX
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Keywords for this book
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