1954 5 78 The rhetorical tradition survives today in ‘new criticism’, with its theories of verbal ambiguity and irony, and the allegorical school survives in ‘myth criticism’, which, like its predecessor, attempts to isolate a subject-matter instead of studying a form.
1994 J. Barth 310 By mid-century their work in turn had inspired a veritable industry of ‘myth-criticism’, among whose notable practitioners were the eminent Canadian Northrop Frye.