Critical Path - An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism

Northrop Frye, University Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is author of The Anatomy of Criticism, The Well-Tempered Critic, The Educated Imagination, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, and other books.

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Northrop Frye, University Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is author of The Anatomy of Criticism, The Well-Tempered Critic, The Educated Imagination, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, and other books.

Summary

Offers incidental insights into specific cultural phenomena. This title identifies two predominating ideologies in Western culture which he designates as the 'myth of concern' and the 'myth of freedom'.

Product details

• Authors: Northrop Frye
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1971
• EAN: 9780253201584
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20158-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 205 g
• Series: Midland Books: No. 1; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies