Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism by Northdrop Frye Journal author of The Addiction Inoculation

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Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism by Northdrop Frye Journal author of The Addiction InoculationThis philosophic inquiry into fundamental problems of literature and society is an immensely important addition to the canon of one of America's most original and distinguished critics. What is the function of poetry? Of criticism? In what sense does the poet "know"? What is the relationship between a society and its art? Northrop Frye conducts us on an illuminating survey of these and other broad philosophic issues and offers many incidental insights