{"product_id":"anatomy-of-criticism-four-essays","title":"Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays","description":"Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.\n\nLiterature, Frye wrote, is \"the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life.\" And the critical study of literature provides a basic way \"to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.\"\n\nHarold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0691069999\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0691069999.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Frye, Northrop\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43873878769725,"sku":"BVV.0691069999.A","price":7.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0691069999-0.jpg?v=1792704053","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/anatomy-of-criticism-four-essays","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}