The major source for the concept that there are four types of literature (in addition to the didactic essay--what you often write in English class), and for the concept of levels in a beginning strategy of reading is: Northrup Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, Princeton Press, Princeton, NJ, 1957.  The names of the levels are simplified here ("heroic" instead of "high mimetic", for example).  Frye's  perceptual catalog is vaster, essentially four-dimensional. The book with the evocative statement that "all literature tells one story" is Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces For the method of generating the levels: the idea came from what Bachelard does in The Psychoanalysis of Fire, and from the methodical way he discovers meaning in The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas, John R. Stilgoe, The Poetics of Space, Reprint Edition, Beacon Press, Boston, 1994 Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, translated by Alan C. M. Ross, preface by Northrop Frye, Beacon Press, Boston, 1964. Accessible introductions to the ideas of Carl Jung: Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, Doubleday, NY., 1964 Robin Robertson, Beginner's Guide to Jungian Psychology, Nicholas-Hays, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1992 Please use the "Back" button on your browser to return from whence you came.