Bøger af Northrop Frye

Presented here is a selection from the professional and personal correspondence of Northrop Frye, one of the preeminent literary critics of the last century. With frank and accessible appraisals, the letters reveal Frye's attitudes toward scores of topics: the value of James Bond thrillers, the gap between faith and reason, surrealism, hippies, Milton's imagery, comparative literature, political hysteria in the U.S., the nature of the educated imagination, anarchism, the teaching of religion in the university, the Proteus myth, the distinction between subjects and themes, the connection between Nietzsche and Yeats, the difference between cliche and aphorism, the fussy rules of copy editors, and scores of other issues.

Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye's timeless essays on literature and painting along with a new introduction by celebrated Canadian author Lisa Moore.

Here is a specialized dictionary of quotations based on the thoughts and writings of a single person. It is evidence that there is a Canadian writer of whom it may be said that we as his readers can grow up inside his work "without ever being aware of a circumference."

In this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism.

The description for this book, Anatomy of Criticism, will be forthcoming.

Offers incidental insights into specific cultural phenomena. This title identifies two predominating ideologies in Western culture which he designates as the 'myth of concern' and the 'myth of freedom'.

Contains essays written with a fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context.

Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov Nothnagle: Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D'Aubigne Campbell: The Transformation of Biblical Myth: MacLeish's Use of the Adam and Job Stories Hiller: The Symbolism of Gestus in Brecht's Drama Sr. Joselyn: Animal Imagery in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction The Work Examined--Archetypes and Interpretations LaGuardia: Chastity, Regeneration, and World Order in All's Well that Ends Well Jones: Immortality in Two of Milton's Elegies Dougherty: Of Ruskin's Gardens Kern: Myth and Symbol in Criticism of Faulkner's "The Bear" Welliver: The De Vulgari Eloquentia and Dante's Quasi After-Life Vickery: The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype

his new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye's life.

Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance thus forms an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling sacred scripture whose hero is God.

This new edition not only re-presents Frye's text in a clear, correct, and fully annotated form, it goes a long way in helping us understand the widespread scholarly and popular reception that met this extraordinary and in some ways revolutionary book and how it can still be richly rewarding for readers.

Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.

This collection of essays focuses on the basic building blocks of literature from which Frye believes literature is made. It also examines the relationship between literature and mythology and social concern and ideology.

Addressed to educators and general readers - the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life, this book explores the value and uses of literature in our time.

Originally delivered as the 1980 Larkin-Stuart Lectures, this book provides an intriguing and provocative insight into the notion of creation and of the relationship in creativity between the human and the divine.

Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.

Fools of Time will be welcomed not only by many scholars who are familiar with Dr. Frye's keen critical insight but also by undergraduates, graduates, high-school and university teachers who have long valued his work as a means toward a firmer grasp and deeper understanding of English literature.

This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "e;Prophecies,"e; and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.