Dissection of Criticism

Author: Northrop Frye
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book analyzes and summarizes the pros and cons of various existing Western critical schools. The author incorporates the achievements of psychology and anthropology, integrates the strengths of different schools, and systematically discusses the basic viewpoints and methods of archetypal criticism. It is both a systematic summary of Western literary criticism before the 1950s and a clear declaration of the new trends in Western literary criticism after the 1950s.