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Anatomy of Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye

A defense of criticism that examines the theories, principles, approaches, and techniques involved in the study of literature.

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“A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.”

Northrop Frye book Anatomy of Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction

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