Anatomy of criticism :
Frye, Northrop,
Anatomy of criticism : four essays / Northrop Frye ; with a foreword by Harold Bloom. - Tenth printing - xvi, 383 pages ; 22 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.". "Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life." And the critical study of literature provides a basic way "to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.""--BOOK JACKET.
0691069999 9780691069999
Criticism.
--Reading book
801.95 / FRY
Anatomy of criticism : four essays / Northrop Frye ; with a foreword by Harold Bloom. - Tenth printing - xvi, 383 pages ; 22 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.". "Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life." And the critical study of literature provides a basic way "to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.""--BOOK JACKET.
0691069999 9780691069999
Criticism.
--Reading book
801.95 / FRY