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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780670803321

Autore

Frye Northrop

Titolo

The secular scripture and other writings on critical theory, 1976-1991 / / edited by Joseph Adamson and Jean Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4426-5832-0

1-4426-2755-7

1-281-99199-6

9786611991999

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; ; Volume 18

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology 1818-75 -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: The Wild Ass's Skin -- 1. A Splendid Failure? -- 2. 1400-1817: The Strangford Inheritance -- 3. 1818-26: Cradled in Commotions -- 4. 1826-35: George Smythe's Schooldays -- 5. 1836-7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge -- 6. 1837-8: Faber -- 7. 1838-9: Pearls and Swine -- 8. 1840: Lady Tankerville -- 9. 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator -- 10. 1841:I Am a Very Zero -- 11. 1842: Young England -- 12. 1843: Worrying Peel - and Reading Casanov -- 13. 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies -- 14. 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche -- 15. 1845: The Double Game -- 16. 1846: Falling Upstairs - and Down -- 17. 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own -- 18. 1848-9: Very Like Assassination -- 19. 1850-2: Diplomatic Moves -- 20. 1852: Something about the Duke -- 21. 1853-5: The Stage-Box of My Soul -- 22. 1856-7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace -- Afterwards -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

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.