There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend-not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing v…
The Cambridge history of literary criticism
by Selden, Raman, Brown, Marshall, Kennedy, George Alexander, Nisbet, Hugh B., Litz, Arthur W., Litz, Arthur W., Brooks, Peter, Norton, Glyn P., Knellwolf, Christa, Minnis, Alastair J.
fromCambridge history of literary criticism / general eds.: Pet…
"Northrop Frye's The Secular Scripture (1976) explores the development of the romance as a literary form. This volume in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings together The Secular Scripture and thirty shorter pieces on literary theory and criticism from the last fif…