Anatomy of Criticism
Subtitle: Four Essays
Edition: Updated edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780691069999
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary theory; Literary Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays; General; American Language and Literature; British Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Religion
Description: "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.