Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989: Unpublished Papers

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University of Toronto Press, 1 jan 2002 - 420 pagina's

Drawn from previously unpublished essays, talks, reviews and papers, this volume of Northrop Frye's collected works spans some fifty years of his long writing career.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.

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Inhoudsopgave

The General Editors Introduction
5
Chaucers Canterbury Tales
131
George Orwell
140
The Present Condition of the World
207
Leisure and Boredom
221
Criticism and Society
228
Articulate English
236
Tradition and Change in the Theory of Criticism
243
Icons and Iconoclasm
270
Introduction to the Second Volume of Harold Inniss
302
William Butler Yeats
309
Alessandro Manzoni The Betrothed and Pär Lagerkvist Barabbas
318
Acadia University
333
University of Bologna
340
Notes
367
Index
393

The Social Uses of Literature
253

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Over de auteur (2002)

The late Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. ROBERT D. DENHAM is John P. Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is author and editor of several books on Northrop Frye.

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