Interviews with Northrop Frye . Volume 24 / / edited by Jean O'Grady

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781113203321
• Autore: Frye Northrop
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-4426-9228-6; 1-4426-8837-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1267 p.)
• Collana: Collected Works of Northrop Frye ; ; Volume 24
• Disciplina: 801.95092
• Soggetti: Critics - Canada; Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Interviews.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.; Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 What Has Become of Conversation? -- 2 On Human Values -- 3 University -- 4 Literary Trends of the Twentieth Century -- 5 The Voice and the Crowd -- 6 Breakthrough -- 7 Style and Image in the Twentieth Century -- 8 Dix Ans avant la Neo-critique -- 9 B.K. Sandwell -- 10 Engagement and Detachment -- 11 Lâ€?Anti-McLuhan -- 12 Student Protest Movement -- 13 CRTC Guru -- 14 The Only Genuine Revolution -- 15 The Limits of Dialogue -- 16 â€oeThere Is Really No Such Thing As Methodologyâ€?; 17 Into the Wilderness18 The Magic of Words -- 19 Two Heretics: Milton and Melville -- 20 Notes on a Maple Leaf -- 21 The Canadian Imagination -- 22 Poets of Canada: 1920 to the Present -- 23 On Evil -- 24 Blakeâ€?s Cosmos -- 25 Science Policy and the Quality of Life -- 26 Modern Education -- 27 Symmetry in the Arts: Blake -- 28 Harold Innis: Portrait of a Scholar -- 29 Easter -- 30 Impressions -- 31 CRTC Hearings -- 32 Canadian Voices -- 33 Sacred and Secular Scriptures -- ; 34 Education, Religion, Old Age -- 35 The Future Tense; 36 â€oeA Literate Person Is First and Foremost an Articulate Personâ€?37 The Education of Mike McManus -- 38 An Eminent Victorian -- 39 Between Paradise and Apocalypse -- 40 Fryeâ€?s Literary Theory in the Classroom: A Panel Discussion -- 41 Getting the Order Right -- 42 Tradition and Change in the College -- 43 The New American Dreams over the Great Lakes -- 44 Four Questions for Northrop Frye -- 45 â€oeI Tried to Shatter the Shell of Historicismâ€? -- 46 The Wisdom of the Reader -- 47 Identity and Myth -- 48 Literature in Education; 49 Northrop Frye: Signifying Everything50 The Critical Path -- 51 Regionalism in Canada -- 52 Canadian Energy: Dialogues on Creativity -- 53 From Nationalism to Regionalism: The Maturing of Canadian Culture -- 54 Commemorating the Massey Lectures -- 55 Marshall McLuhan -- 56 Storytelling -- 57 A Fearful Symmetry -- 58 Medium and Message -- 59 Scientist and Artist -- 60 The Art of Bunraku -- 61 On The Great Code (I) -- 62 Chatelaineâ€?s Celebrity I.D. -- 63 On The Great Code (II) -- 64 Towards an Oral History of the University of Toronto; 65 Back to the Garden66 On The Great Code (III) -- 67 Maintaining Freedom in Paradise -- 68 On The Great Code (IV) -- 69 Making the Revolutionary Act New -- 70 Visualization in Reading -- 71 Hard Times in the Ivory Tower -- 72 Frye at the Forum -- 73 The Scholar in Society -- 74 Inventing a Music: MacMillan and Walter in the Past and Present -- 75 Criticism after Anatomy -- 76 Richard Cartwright and the Roots of Canadian Conservatism -- 77 Les Lecteurs doivent manger le livre -- 78 The Darkening Mirror: Reflections on the Bomb and Language
• Sommario/riassunto: "Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of the Romantic period, but of the Renaissance. As such, Frye's meditations on the Renaissance are particularly valuable. This volume collects six of Frye's notebooks and five sets of his typed notes on subjects related to Renaissance literature." "Michael Dolzani divides these notes into three categories: those on Spenser and the epic tradition; those on Shakespearean drama and, more widely, the dramatic tradition from Old Comedy to the masque; and those on lyric poetry and non-fiction prose. The organization of this volume reflects the comprehensive study of Renaissance symbolism in three volumes that Frye proposed to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1949. Frye received a Guggenheim fellowship, but never completed this work; nevertheless, his application, part of which is also included here, is an important document. It not only reveals the outlines of Frye's thinking about literature, it also uncovers his plans for his future creative life during the crucial period between his completion of Fearful Symmetry and his absorption in the writing of Anatomy of Criticism." "In addition to providing insight into Frye's thinking process, the material collected here is of unique importance because much of it touches on topics not fully explored in his other published works."--Jacket