Dermatologic surgeons need keen understanding of nerve, vascular structures LaJolla, Calif. - As surgical abilities expand in dermatology, so too has the need for a thorough understanding of the surgical anatomy of the face by dermatologists, Hugh Greenway, M.D., says. Twenty-three years...

Neil Barron, Ed. Anatomy of Wonder, A Critical Guide to Science Fiction. Fifth Edition. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 996 pp. $80 hdbk. Now in a remarkable fifth edition, with substantial changes that are described clearly in the front matter, Neil Barron's...

Critics often fight undeclared wars, and any theorist who would free the traffic of criticism must harmonize variant and even discordant interests. Like [Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Préfet de la Seine under Napoleon III,] he must deal with a city that has grown more or less at random in response to historical accident. City planning frequently begins when it is too late; one asks, is it too expensive to rebuild? Furthermore, theoretical networks like the [Anatomy of Criticism] are always called ...

There are moments in the Anatomy when Frye's problematic understanding of himself as literary scientist, with critical principles which stand free of ideology, is productive. His acute demonstrations of the provincialism of the New Critics, who assert the universal applicability of ideas which manifestly grow out of the limited reach of symbolist-ironic literature, is a case in point. Many "current critical assumptions," he says, "have a limited historical context. In our day an ...

'Pure critical theory.' 'A conceptual framework for the examination of literature.' 'A synoptic view of the scope, theory, principles and techniques of literary criticism.' When Professor Frye describes his [Anatomy of Criticism] like this, it sounds dry and daunting. Not at all: it's more like a greenhouse where the plants have had an overdose of fertilizer: the result is a riotous, exuberant tangle. This is the challenge of the book. If we take it at face v...