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Anatomy Of Criticism: Four Essays

Northrop Frye

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Description:"What if criticism is a science as well as an art?" Vigorous, encyclopaedically erudite and genuinely witty, Northrop Frye's seminal masterpiece of critical theory was the first work to argue for the status of literary criticism as a science, a true discipline whose techniques and approaches could be systematically - and beneficially - evaluated, quantified and categorized.Frye's 'polemical introduction' states the aims and limitations of his project and demonstrates why criticism is necessary ("A public that tries to do without criticism ... brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory ... Criticism can talk, and all the arts are dumb"). The four essays that follow focus on the theory of modes; different uses of symbolism; the myths and seasonal stories that underlie comedy, romance, tragedy and satire; and, finally, rhetoric and rhythm. Whether discussing Aristophanes or Jane Austen, Browning or the Bible, Chaucer or Conrad, Wagner or Wordsworth, Frye emphasizes the importance of using a variety of critical tools. His Anatomy "attacks no method of criticism ... what it attacks are the barriers between the methods."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anatomy Of Criticism: Four Essays. To get started finding Anatomy Of Criticism: Four Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 390

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Release: 1990

ISBN: 0140124802

Description: "What if criticism is a science as well as an art?" Vigorous, encyclopaedically erudite and genuinely witty, Northrop Frye's seminal masterpiece of critical theory was the first work to argue for the status of literary criticism as a science, a true discipline whose techniques and approaches could be systematically - and beneficially - evaluated, quantified and categorized.Frye's 'polemical introduction' states the aims and limitations of his project and demonstrates why criticism is necessary ("A public that tries to do without criticism ... brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory ... Criticism can talk, and all the arts are dumb"). The four essays that follow focus on the theory of modes; different uses of symbolism; the myths and seasonal stories that underlie comedy, romance, tragedy and satire; and, finally, rhetoric and rhythm. Whether discussing Aristophanes or Jane Austen, Browning or the Bible, Chaucer or Conrad, Wagner or Wordsworth, Frye emphasizes the importance of using a variety of critical tools. His Anatomy "attacks no method of criticism ... what it attacks are the barriers between the methods."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anatomy Of Criticism: Four Essays. To get started finding Anatomy Of Criticism: Four Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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