Give the Public What they Want? Northrop Frye’s ‘Anatomy of Criticism’
Northrop Frye’s ‘Anatomy of Criticism’ is a momentous collection of essays that I have been grappling with for a while now, as I try to foray further into the folds of literary criticism. Here, I return to just its first few pages, and consider Frye’s point about the danger of the public intellectual and the ‘history of taste’.
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