Full name: Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

Author: Northrop Frye Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780691069999 0691069999

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. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, he provides a conceptual framework for the examination of literature. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, he applies "scientific" method in an effort to change the character of criticism from the casual to the causal, from the random and intuitive to the systematic.Harold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world. Similar books: Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson Mimesis by Erich Auerbach The Mirror and the Lamp by M. H. Abrams The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth The Irresponsible Self by James Wood The Broken Estate by James Wood A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein Fiction and the Figures of Life by William H. Gass Theory of literature by Rene Wellek The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling The Company We Keep by Wayne C. Booth Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth