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Anatomy of criticism: four essays

Northrop Frye and Harold Bloom
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (page vii)
  • Prefactory Statements and Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • POLITICAL INTRODUCTION (page 3)
  • FIRST ESSAY. Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes
    • Fictional Modes: Introduction (page 33)
    • Tragic Fictional Modes (page 35)
    • Comic Fictional Modes (page 43)
    • Thematic Modes (page 52)
  • SECOND ESSAY. Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols
    • Introduction (page 71)
    • Literal and Descritive Phases: Symbol as Motif and as SIgn (page 73)
    • Formal Phase: Symbol as Image (page 82)
    • Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype (page 95)
    • Anagogic Phase: Symbol as Monad (page 115)
  • THIRD ESSAY. Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths
    • Introduction (page 131)
    • Theory of Archetypal Meaning (1): Apocalyptic Imagery (page 141)
    • Theory of Archetypal Meaning (2): Demonic Imagery (page 147)
    • Theory of Archetypal Meaning (3): Analogical Imagery (page 151)
    • Theory of Methos: Introduction (page 158)
    • The Mythos og Spring: Comedy (page 163)
    • The Mythos of Summer: Romance (page 186)
    • The Mythos of Autumn: Tragedy (page 206)
    • The Mythos of Winter: irony and Satire (page 223)
  • FOURTH ESSAY. Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres
    • Introduction (page 243)
    • The Rhythm of Recurrence: Epos (page 251)
    • The Rhythm of Continuity: Prose (page 263)
    • The Rhythm of Decorum: Drama (page 268)
    • The Rhythm of Association: Lyric (page 270)
    • Specific Forms of Drama (page 282)
    • Specific Thematic Forms (Lyric and Epos) (page 293)
    • Specific Continuous Forms (Prose Fiction) (page 303)
    • Specific Encyclopaedic Forms (page 315)
    • The Rhetoric of Non-Literary Prose (page 326)
  • TENTATIVE CONCLUSION (page 341)
  • NOTES (page 357)
  • GLOSSARY (page 365)
  • INDEX (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RCL 72 (Apr. 2008): 261-268 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40357227
MLR 54.1 (Jan. 1959): 107-109 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3720866
RES 10.39 (Aug. 1959): 317-323 http://www.jstor.org/stable/510318
JAAC 16.4 (Jun. 1958): 533-534 http://www.jstor.org/stable/428058
POET 91.5 (Fev. 1958): 320-328 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20586882
ENJ 72.2 (Feb. 1983): 91-92 http://www.jstor.org/stable/816749
HudR 10.4 (Winter 1957-1958): 614-619 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3848933
MP 56.1 (Aug. 1958): 69-72 http://www.jstor.org/stable/435494
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Published: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Copyright Holder: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691204253 (ebook)
  • 9780691069999 (paper)
  • 9780691060040 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Literature
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