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Critical Essay by Murray Krieger
Whatever the attitude toward Northrop Frye's prodigious schemes, one cannot doubt that, in what approaches a decade since the publication of his masterwork [Ana...
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Critical Essay by Frank Lentricchia
There are moments in the Anatomy when Frye's problematic understanding of himself as literary scientist, with critical principles which stand free of ideolog...
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Critical Essay by Frank Kermode
[For the extraordinary Anatomy of Criticism], as for how few works of critical theory, one confidently predicts long life. It is wonderfully well written, and has such ...
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Critical Essay by M. H. Abrams
[Professor Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is] a big, packed, compendious, and audacious book. He undertakes specifically a "science" of criticism which...
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Critical Essay by John Holloway
'Pure critical theory.' 'A conceptual framework for the examination of literature.' 'A synoptic view of the scope, theory, principles...
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Critical Essay by Frank Kermode
The one thing certain about modern criticism is that there is too much of it, and it is only rarely that one can say of a practitioner that he cannot safely be left unr...
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Critical Essay by Angus Fletcher
Critics often fight undeclared wars, and any theorist who would free the traffic of criticism must harmonize variant and even discordant interests. Like [Georges-Eug...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
I have often said that I regard criticism itself as a systematic subject, and there are systematic tendencies in the Anatomy of Criticism, particularly in the way that ...
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