1. “The Computer and the Concept of Text,”Computers and the Humanities 11(July/August 1977) 211–215. She suggested the telescopic analogy which I have gratefully repeated; but I cannot agree with her proposal that the problem will resolve itself if we substitute a Lévi-Straussian mental set for the one she descries.
2. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, Princeton (NJ) University Press, 1957, page 3. John Casey denies that Frye has in fact described a “science of criticism”:The Language of Criticism, London: Methuen, 1966, pp. 140–151.
3. See Laurence D. Lerner, “Criticism: Functions,” inEncyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger, Princeton (NJ) University Press, 1965, pp. 158–163.
4. Critique et vérité, Paris: Seuil, 1966, pp. 56–57: emphasis his. There are, of course, problems with the notion that literature's “objectivity” lies in its written mode of existence: see the discussion below of the Parry-Lord oral theory.
5. See, e.g., A.S. Buschmin, “Die Kriterien für die Exaktheit in der Literaturwissenschaft,”Kunst und Literatur 17(1969) 1120–1138; Wilhelm Fucks, “Possibilities of Exact Style Analysis,” inPatterns of Literary Style, ed. J. Strelka, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971 (Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, 3), pp. 51–76; Josef Mìstrík, “Exakte Methoden einer Texttypologie,”Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 36(1972) 318–331; Ranadhir Mitra, “Literary Criticism as Science: Problems and Possibilities in Structuralist and Marxist Endeavors,” diss. University of California at San Diego, 1972,Dissertation Abstracts International 33(1973) 3596A–3597A; Diethelm Brüggemann, “Was leistet die exakte Literaturanalyse?,”Neue Rundschau 84(No. 2, 1973) 353–358; Martha C. Sammons, “The Role of Scientific Methodology in Modern Critical Procedures,” diss. University of North Carolina, 1974,Dissertation Abstracts International 35(February 1975) 5362A; and Richard B. Kinsey, “How to Study Literary Texts: An Essay on the Foundations of Knowledge in Literary Studies,” diss. American University, 1975,ibid. 36(September 1975) 1482A.