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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806948403321

Titolo

Northrop Frye : Eastern and Western perspectives / / edited by Jean O'Grady and Wang Ning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-02322-5

9786612023224

1-4426-7785-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Frye Studies

Disciplina

801.95092

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Frye as Theorist -- Frye and the East: Buddhist and Hindu Translations -- Kant and Frye on the Critical Path -- Northrop Frye on Liberal Education -- Beyond Anagogy: Northrop Frye's Existential (Re)visions -- On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Problem of Wish-Fulfilment in Frye's Visionary Criticism -- From Escape to Irony: Frye's The Argument of Comedy -- Northrop Frye and Cultural Studies -- Frye and Canada

Canadian Angles of Vision: Northrop Frye, Carl Klinck, and the Literary History of CanadaGone Primitive: The Critic in Canada -- Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye: New Feminism or Old Comedy? -- Frye and China -- Myth-Archetypal Criticism in China -- Reconsidering Frye's Critical Thinking: A Chinese Perspective -- The Universal Significance of Frye's Theory of Fictional Modes -- Frye Studies in China: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Works -- Epilogue

Sommario/riassunto

Drawn from papers given at an international symposium on Northrop Frye in Hoh-Hot, Inner Mongolia, this volume offers insights intoFrye's theoretical approaches and the new context provided by cross-cultural



questions.