A defense of criticism that examines the theories, principles, approaches, and techniques involved in the study of literature.
Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
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, ...
This volume, the twenty-second in the acclaimed Collected Works of Northrop Frye series, presents Frye's most influential work, Anatomy of Criticism (1957). In four stylish and sweeping essays, Frye attempts...