Northrop Frye on literature and society, 1936-1989 : unpublished papers / / edited by Robert D. Denham

• Autore: Frye Northrop
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93355
• Soggetto topico: Literature and society; English literature - History and criticism; Criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): DenhamRobert D.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-392) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- 1. Rencontre: The General Editor's Introduction -- 2. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- 3. George Orwell -- 4. Shakespeare's Comedy of Humors -- 5. The Writer as Prophet: Milton, Swift, Blake, Shaw -- 6. The Literary Meaning of "Archetype" -- 7. Literature and Language -- 8. Blake's Jerusalem -- II -- 9. The Present Condition of the World -- 10. Leisure and Boredom -- 11. Criticism and Society -- 12. Articulate English -- 13. Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism -- 14. The Social Uses of Literature -- 15. Canadian Identity and Cultural Regionalism -- 16. Icons and Iconoclasm -- 17. Reviews of Television Programs for the Canadian Radio-Television Commission -- 18. Introduction to the Second Volume of Harold Innis's "A History of Communications" -- III -- 19. William Butler Yeats -- 20. Laurence Hyde, Southern Cross, and The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes -- 21. Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, and Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas -- 22. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History and Herbert Butterfield, History and Human Relations -- 23. Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture -- IV -- 24. Convocation Address: Acadia University -- 25. Convocation Address: McGill University -- 26. Convocation Address: University of Bologna -- Appendix: The Social Context of Literary Criticism -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawn from previously unpublished essays, talks, reviews and papers, this volume of Northrop Frye's collected works spans some fifty years of his long writing career. The earliest item is a paper on The Canterbury Tales dating from Frye's student days at Oxford. The latest was written in 1989, on the occasion of his receiving his thirty-sixth honorary degree from the University of Bologna.The center-piece of the collection is Frye's lengthy and ambitious essay, "Rencontre." Intended as an introduction to a never-published anthology of English literature, it is unique in Frye's oeuvre, being the only example of a sustained, continuous encounter with an entire literary tradition. "Rencontre" is a masterwork in its own right. Other important essays include: "Shakespeare and the Comedy of Humours," "The Literary Meaning of 'Archetype,'" and "Blake's Jerusalem." Frye was a profound and original thinker whose stature has not yet been fully realized. The writings collected here not only exemplify his extraordinary mind and elegant prose style - they show a far-sightedness and range that has not been seen before.
• Titolo autorizzato: Northrop Frye on literature and society, 1936-1989
• ISBN: 1-282-02250-4; 9786612022500; 1-4426-7781-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456122303321
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