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Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a synoptic defense of liberal learning by one of the twentieth century's most distinguished critics. In this, the twenty-third volume of the Collected Works, editor Robert D. Denham presents the notebooks to the Anatomy, blue-prints, as it were, for Frye's comprehensive account of literary conventions.
Composed from the late 1940s to 1956, the notebooks document the struggle Frye underwent to provide a structure for his work. This involved incorporating previously published essays and developing new material that would maintain the continuity of his argument. This fully annotated volume contains seventeen holograph notebooks, each illuminating some aspect of the grand structure that eventually emerged. Altogether, the notebooks offer an intimate picture of Frye's working process and a renewed appreciation for his magisterial accomplishment.
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john kurpiel
reviewed Northrop Fryes Notebookss for Anatomy of Criticism, Vol. 23 on May 10, 2009
Northrop Fryes Notebookss for Anatomy of Criticism, Vol. 23
This somewhat odd little book - a cartoon introduction to the ideas and work of Barthes - served its purpose by (a) being relatively painless to read (though the assorted phalluses - or possibly phalli - which were sprinkled liberally through what seemed like an unnecessarily large number of the drawings got a bit tedious after a while) and (b) confirming what I had already suspected, that I can comfortably leave Monsieur Barthes to the academic set and get on with my reading, without feeling unduly guilty, or worrying that I will be leaving some rich vein of meaning untapped. Not to be too critical, but most of the points that were made in this book seemed to be either glaringly obvious to anyone with half a brain, or so weirdly peculiar that nobody in their right mind would waste time worrying about them.
Perhaps if I smoked morre Gauloises, or were less gruntled, or just more generally alienated, I might have liked it more. As it was, it seemed to me to be more suited to the pseudo-intellectual set than to those who just read for the pleasure that reading brings.
Not that there's anything wrong with zat, of course.
I read it in Spanish, but doubt that I would have reacted any differently to an English version.
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