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Author : Ford Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000525960
Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0141187093
Author : Glen Robert Gill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442658387
In Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth, Glen Robert Gill compares Frye's theories about myth to those of three other major twentieth-century mythologists: C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Mircea Eliade. Gill explores the theories of these respective thinkers as they relate to Frye's discussions of the phenomenological nature of myth, as well as its religious, literary, and psychological significance. Gill substantiates Frye's work as both more radical and more tenable than that of his three contemporaries. Eliade's writings are shown to have a metaphysical basis that abrogates an understanding of myth as truly phenomenological, while Jung's theory of the collective unconscious emerges as similarly problematic. Likewise, Gill argues, Campbell's work, while incorporating some phenomenological progressions, settles on a questionable metaphysical foundation. Gill shows how, in contrast to these other mythologists, Frye's theory of myth – first articulated in Fearful Symmetry (1947) and culminating in Words with Power (1990) – is genuinely phenomenological. With excursions into fields such as literary theory, depth psychology, theology, and anthropology, Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth is essential to the understanding of Frye's important mythological work.
Author : Northrop Frye,Jay Macpherson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802086950
Combines a 1981-82 series of twenty-four lectures by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye and Canadian poet and classicist Jay Macpherson's "Four Ages: the Classical Myths" published in 1962.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813913691
Essays on literary criticism.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802077811
In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience. In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': "Measure for Measure," "All's Well That Ends Well," and "Troilus and Cressida," showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253202892
This collection of a dozen major essays written in recent year is vintage Frye—the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus Mundi—the title comes from one of Yeat's best known poems, "The Second Coming," and refers to the book that was supposedly the source of Yeat's apocalyptic vision of a "great beast, slouching toward Bethlehem"—are arranges in three groups of four essays each. The first four are about the "contexts of literature," the second are about the "mythological universe," and the last are studies of four of the great visionary or myth-making poets who have been enduring sources of interest for Frye: Milton, Blake, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. The volume is full of agreeable surprises: a delightful piece on charms and riddles is followed by an illuminating essay on Shakespearean romance. Like most of the other essays in the book, these two are compressed and elegant expositions of ideas that in the hands of a lesser writer would have required a book. In another selection Frye rescues Spengler from neglect and argues for the inclusion of The Decline of the West among the major imaginative books produced by the Western world. Elsewhere he advances the case for placing Copernicus in a pantheon composed primarily of literary figures. OF particular interest are several essays in which Frye comments personally and reflectively on the influence he has had on the study of literature and the reactions elicited by his work. In "The Renaissance of Books" he dissents from the opinion of the McLuhanites that the written word is showing signs of obsolescence and argues that books are "the technological instrument that makes democracy possible." As the dozen essays collected here amply attest, Northrop Frye continues to be the most perceptive and most persuasive exponent of the power of mythological imagination—or as he himself calls it, "the mythological habit of mind"—written in English.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : MINN:31951D00092446N
This collection focuses on the fundamental themes that have dominated Frye's career and made him one of the world's most influential critics. Each of the essays is ultimately about the conventions of language, literature, and discursive thought: the myths, metaphors, cosmologies, images, symbols, and genres that form the fabric of Western writing.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802068650
The Double Vision originated in lectures delivered at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto, the texts of which were revised and augmented.
Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780198724704
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015008231477
In this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism.
Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1202136774
Author : John B. Vickery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803252080
This collection of thirty-four major essays devoted to the theories, methods, and problems of myth criticism offers a convenient and substantial introduction to one of the most distinctive trends in contemporary literary study. The essays (many of them previously uncollected) are arranged to lead from general considerations to analyses of specific authors. The four Part I selections constitute an informal survey of the views of myth and ritual taken by disciplines other than literature. In Part II the first six essays relate the concept of myth and ritual to general literary theory, while the final three evaluate the uses of myth in critical theory and practice. The twenty-one Part III essays, which apply myth criticism to individual literary works or authors, afford a representative sampling of the mythopoeic patterns discerned in literature from Home to Faulkner. Among the contributors are: David Bidney, Gäza R¢heim, Joseph Campbell, Clyde Kluckhohn, Stanley Hyman, Philip Wheelwright, Richard Chase, Harold Watts, Northrop Frye, Andrew Lytle, Philip Rahv, Francis Fergusson, Marvin Magalaner, John Lydenberg, and Harry Slochower.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400847471
This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802091796
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.
