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x, 383 pages ; 25 cm |
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POLEMICAL INTRODUCTION -- FIRST ESSAY - Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes -- Fictional modes: Introduction -- Tragic fictional modes -- Comic fictional modes -- Thematic modes -- SECOND ESSAY - Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols -- Introduction -- Literal and descriptive phases: Symbol as motif and as sign -- Formal phase: Symbol as image -- Mythical phase: Symbol as archetype -- Anagogic phase: Symbol as monad -- THIRD ESSAY - Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths -- Introduction -- Theory of archetypal meaning: Apocalyptic imagery -- Theory of archetypal meaning: Demonic imagery -- Theory of archetypal meaning: Analogical imagery -- Theory of mythos: Introduction -- The mythos of spring: Comedy -- The mythos of summer: Romance -- The mythos of autumn: Tragedy -- The mythos of winter: Irony and satire -- FOURTH ESSAY - Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres -- Introduction -- The rhythm of recurrence: Epos -- The rhythm of continuity: Prose -- The rhythm of decorum: Drama -- The rhythm of association: Lyric -- Specific forms of drama -- Specific thematic forms (lyric and epos) -- Specific continuous forms (prose fiction) --Specific encyclopaedic forms -- The rhetoric of non-literary prose. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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